Women Playwrights’ Initiative
5th Annual Playwriting Workshop
Workshop Information
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DATE & TIME June 5-6, 2010. Workshop on Saturday and Sunday will run approximately from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
TUITION $400. Tuition fee includes breakfast and lunch for both days, two complimentary tickets to the production of the winning script from the WPI Script Competition, and writing supplies. WPI is offering 25% scholarships to the first 10 women who submit registration forms and a non-refundable registration fee of $25. Class size is limited to a maximum of 12; women participants will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
LOCATION Winter Park, FL (exact location TBA)
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR Deborah Brevoort holds MFAs in playwriting from Brown University and in musical theatre writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches. She also teaches in the MFA playwriting programs at Columbia University and Goddard College, and at the New School's Eugene Lang College. Deborah Brevoort is the award-winning playwright of The Women of Lockerbie.
WORKSHOP FOCUS Beginnings
WORKSHOP DETAILS This workshop will focus on beginnings, since getting started is the one of the hardest parts to writing a play. We will examine audience expectations, theatrical conventions, and the basic craft elements involved in hooking an audience and getting them on board for a journey into your play world. We will also discuss how to liberate yourself in the writing and how to maximize the dramatic possibilities for your play. Each writer should bring the first 10 pages of a play of their own to develop during the workshop.
PREVIOUS WPI PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS
1st Annual Playwriting Workshop, June 10 - 11, 2006, Workshop Leader: Arlene Hutton
2nd Annual Playwriting Workshop, June 9-10, 2007, Workshop Leader: Deborah Brevoort
3rd Annual Playwriting Workshop, May 31-June 1, 2008, Workshop Leader: Deborah Brevoort
4th Annual Playwriting Workshop, June 20-21, 2009, Workshop Leader: Deborah Brevoort
ABOUT WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS’ INITIATIVE
WPI is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the developmentand production of plays written by women through educational outreach, workshops, readings and productions. For more information, please visit www.womenplaywrights.com or email WomenPlaywrights@gmail.com.
For more information specific to the WPI Playwriting Workshop (registration, scholarship info), email Courtney Miller at CourtneyMillerProductions@gmail.com. Please list “Playwriting Workshop” in the subject line. |
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FOURTH ANNUAL
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
June 20-21, 2009
Registration deadline - May 8th |
PLOTTING ALONG
A workshop in playwriting
with
Deborah Brevoort
Award Winning Author
of
The Women of Lockerbie
June 20th and 21st, 2009
The Sullivan House on the Rollins College campus
Winter Park, Florida |
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Plotting Along, with award-winning playwright Deborah Brevoort, will explore that most technical aspect of writing - plot. Issues to be examined include: given circumstances, ingredients for action and conflict, plot devices, plot structures, working with genres and subverting genre expectations. This will be a nuts and bolts workshop,designed to give writers a toolbox of techniques, tricks and devices to use when writing for the stage. |
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Deborah Brevoort holds MFAs in playwriting from Brown University and in musical theatre writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches. She also teaches in the MFA playwriting programs at Columbia University and Goddard College, and at the New School's Eugene Lang College.
Registration deadline is May 8, 2009 and women participants will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Space is available for 12 women playwrights of all levels. 50% of the $400 tuition is due with the application at the time of registration. The deadline for cancellationis June 5, 2009 and the remanding tuition balance is also due at this time. Each participant should bring 13 copies of 15 pages of a script to the workshop. Scholarship opportunities are available thanks to support from Harriett Lake. If requesting a scholarship, please also submit a resume that includes an outline of writing projects that are being worked on, completed, published, etc.
Register below at APPLICATION.
For further information contact Courtney Miller at CourtneyMillerProductions@gmail.com
407-949-9596
APPLICATION
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June 2007, 2nd Annual Workshop
Front row, from left: Barbara Jordan,
Minda Stephens, Deborah
Brevoort
(Workshop Leader), Patricia Aylward,
Lyndol Michael (WPI President).
Back row, front left: Daire Kalmes, Joan Patterson, Bernadette Davis, Shari Layne, Vaughn Justice, Barbara Pease Weber. not pictured Julie Devin. |
Deborah Brevoort
Workshop Leader Liz Kiefer Photography |
Deborah Brevoort in courtyard
on Rollins College campus
where 2nd annual Playwritng
Workshop was held.
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SECOND ANNUAL
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
JUNE 9 - 10, 2007
WPI's second annual playwriting workshop was June 9-10, 2007, with workshop leader Deborah Brevoort. She's a playwright and musical theatre librettist/lyricist from Alaska who now lives in New Jersey and is the author of the award-winning The Women of Lockerbie, which was given a public reading (and Central Florida debut) on June 8 before the workshop began. We're pleased that Deborah has agreed to be a charter member of the National Advisory Council, WPI's latest initiative.Council members are luminaries in the theater arts and other disciplines who will lend their names and prestige to WPI and its advocacy role.
Deborah holds MFAs in playwriting from Brown University and in musical theatre writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches. She also teaches in the MFA playwriting programs at Columbia University and Goddard College, and at the New School's Eugene Lang College. We partnered again with Rollins College to hold the Workshop on its Winter Park campus. Jennifer Cavenaugh, jcavenaugh@Rollins.edu, Associate Professor in Theatre and Dance, produced the event for WPI and will produce the 2008 event also.
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Deborah Brevoort
Workshop Leader |
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Comments from writers in the Second Annual Workshop:
Deborah touched on every element of playwriting . . . I also appreciated her discussion of the business of playwriting, submitting plays, etc.. . .It's always hard to put your work out there, but she (Deborah) created a safe environment to do so.
Shari Layne
The major thing I learned was that I had not presented the main conflict of my play clearly enough in the first 10 pages. I came away with the tools, and confidence, to address the issue head-on.
Joan Patterson
Everyone had a chance to speak and every voice was heard . . . I really did see that women playwrights need a place to share their work with other women . . .Since the workshop, I have finished another script, and am working hard to obtain an agent.
Minda A. Stephens |
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FIRST ANNUAL
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
JUNE 10 - 11, 2006
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Emerging playwrights in WPI's first
playwriting workshop share stories
in a break, L-R: Lenore Roland,
Sarah Kate Moore, Courtney Hess,
Darlin Barry, Linda Treiber,
Workshop Leader Arlene Hutton,
Shelley Stoltz, Kate Kimbro. |
Liz Kiefer
Photography |
Workshop Leader Arlene Hutton
directs emerging playwrights in
creative exercises, L-R: Sarah Kate
Moore, Ms.Hutton, Lenore Roland. |
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Comments from writers in the First Annual Workshop:
This workshop sparked my imagination and made me feel more capable of writing than I’ve ever been before.
Courtney Hess
In a non-judgmental environment, Arlene guided us with humor and wisdom through the process of crafting a work for the stage. — Lenore S. Roland
First workshop for me writing in this genre. Everything was covered from mechanics, formatting, submission process, to the writing/self-editing process. — Kate Kimbro
After arriving at a place of complete stalemate and frustration in revising my play, I was fortunate enough to participate in the WPI-sponsored playwriting workshop…The tools and methods she (workshop leader Arlene Hutton) introduced me to have proved both useful and inspiring, and I'm now eagerly anticipating the world premiere of "Grace" next spring. As a new playwright, I was also grateful for her practical, real-world advice about formatting and publishing. — Sarah Kate Moore
Fantastic care and organization by all involved! — Darlin Barry |
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