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Summer 2008 FACE THE BLANK PAGE AND WRITE LUCY THURBER This course will begin with writing exercises that will kick-start the creative process and end with the first draft of a new play. The course is eight week longs and will require writing ten to fifteen pages every week. LUCY THURBER is the author of seven plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of The World and Monstrosity. The Atlantic Theater Company opened its 2007/08 season with Scarcity. Thurber is a member of New Dramatists, 13P, MCC Playwrights Coalition and The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. She is currently writing a new play under commission from Playwrights Horizons. Lucy teaches Playwriting at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
FAST FIRST DRAFT CUSI CRAM Do you have a play or a solo show that you've been meaning to write for years but somehow never have? Are the voices in your head that don't reach the page driving you nuts? Not for long. The goal of this class is to silence your inner critics and keep moving forward at all costs. Students should come prepared with a clear idea of what they want to write and a desire to work with intensity and rigor. Throughout the course, I'll use writing exercises which aim to spur creativity and keep you inspired to FINISH your first draft, no matter what. The course is six weeks long and will require fifteen to twenty pages every week. CUSI CRAM’s plays have been produced and developed at The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Public Theater, South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Class Company, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, The Humana Festival, New Georges, The Miranda Theater, PS122, and the Dag Hammarskjold Theater at the United Nations.She is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, the MCC Playwrights Coalition, The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Groups at Primary Stages, and sits on New Georges’ Artist Council. She lives between Woodstock, NY and Greenwich Village with her husband, Peter Hirsch.
FINDING THE “PLAY” IN PLAY ROGELIO MARTINEZ The workshop is designed for both beginners and advanced writers who want to see their work grow in the course of six intensive sessions. The writers will be advised on plays to read, ways of structuring a scene, conflict, and character. Please keep in mind that the key to a successful workshop is an open mind and generosity toward the work of others. This course is 6 weeks long and will require ten pages every week. ROGELIO MARTINEZ’s play Fizz was developed with an NEA/TCG grant at INTAR and produced at the Ohio Theater in September, 2006. Learning Curve premiered in February, 2005 at Theatre Row and was then published in May, 2006 by Smith and Krauss in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2005. Rogelio's work has been developed and presented at the Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, and the Magic Theater, among others. He has been commissioned to write a new play by the Denver Center Theater and the Atlantic Theater Company. He teaches playwriting at Lincoln Center Theater and Primary Stages.
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