Playwrights Foundation- Women Playwrights Kick It at the New Play Institute

Women Playwrights Kick It at the New Play Institute:

Don’t miss out on a chance to kick-start the new year learning some new tricks from women who do! To help you break through resistance, we’re extending discounts!

Take one of the fantastic classes that are being offered this winter at the New Play Institute!

Jan 27 – Feb 5, 2012
The Tao of Playwriting, The Way of Writing Quickly with Liz Duffy Adams
Discounted! $225 – pay by January 22! (Regular Price: $300)

“Liz Duffy Adams is an excellent teacher. She has the intellectual strength to support all kinds of writing-styles, and she creates an atmosphere that motivates writers. Her “Tao of Playwriting” class did move me off the dime with my own script, and I am grateful for it.”
- David Landau, publisher & novelist (Death Is Not Always the Winner)

Learn how to harness your intellectual and creative instincts by using the Tao de Ching as a playwriting manual. This is a retreat-style, intensive course, and you’ll write a play in four long sessions! Here from New York and acclaimed for her prowess with language, Liz Duffy Adams, the award-winning playwright of Dog Act and Or, will be your guide on this journey.

Feb 21 – May 1 2012
Crack that Whip with Eugenie Chan
Discounted! $300 – pay by January 22! (Regular Price: $375)

Go from solid ideas to a solid first draft in 10 weeks!
Eugenie Chan, ground-breaking playwright, noted for The Cutting Ball’s premiere of Bone To Pick has the know-how to motivate and challenge you!

A rare treat to study with Eugenie for 10 weeks!

Past students of Eugenie Chan’s Crack That Whip had the following to say about her class:

“She has a quiver-full of ideas, prompts and exercises to tease out new approaches to your work, to encourage you to go deeper and farther.”
- Liz Gjelten, playwright

“…[Through Eugenie's exercises], you realize you know more about your play than you thought you did, that you have already created that world in your mind, you just haven’t put the words to it yet.”
- Nara, NPI student

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Playwrights Foundation- Offers a Cornucopia of Playwriting Workshops

This winter we offer a cornucopia of playwriting workshops – an ample selection to satisfy any number of creative appetites! You like to take it nice and slow? Take a 10-week course. You work better under pressure? Take one of our weekend intensives. Take one, or sign up for a few! Take advantage of our Winter Holiday discounts on January classes purchased by December 31. Classes often sell out, be sure to register right away.

Anthony Clarvoe and Lauren Gunderson offer classes in San Francisco and Berkeley starting the week of January 9th. Sign up by December 31st for a Winter Holiday Discount!

Jan 9-Mar 12, 2012 (10 weeks)
Full Tilt to the Finish Line with Anthony Clarvoe
[Only 5 spots of 12 remain - Special price: $395 if you pay in full by Dec 31]
If you’ve already resolved to finish a play in 2012, here’s your chance to charge out of the gate and cross that finish line! Writing a play and training for a marathon are more similar than you’d think – and multiple award-winning, 25-year veteran playwright Anthony Clarvoe is an expert coach. His popular class, Full Tilt to the Finish Line – Writing a Successful Full-length Play, will challenge you to keep up. Convenient East Bay location!

Jan 10 – Feb 21, 2012 (6 weeks – skip Feb 14th)
PlayMath, a Secret Guide to Dramatic Structure with Lauren Gunderson
[Only 5 spots of 12 remain]
Lauren teaches a unique, dynamic approach to dramatic structure using basic mathematical concepts. All of your skills are sure to add up when you do the math!

Jan 27 – Feb 5, 2012 (Two Weekends)
The Tao of Playwriting, The Way of Writing Quickly with Liz Duffy Adams
Learn how to harness your intellectual and creative instincts to create a new piece – using the Tao de Ching as a playwriting manual. This is a retreat-style course designed to subvert your conscious mind. Winner of the Glickman New Play award for Dog Act, and author of acclaimed Or, (Magic Theatre 2011), Ms. Adams is renowned for her extraordinary use of language and wildly original characters. She will be your gentle guide on this journey.
Feb 21 – May 1, 2012 (10 Weeks)

Crack that Whip with Eugenie Chan
You know you want to. You know you can. With a little nudge, a gentle push, and a little trickery, inspiration, and elbow grease along the way, you can finish that first draft. Eugenie is a master when it comes to dramaturgy and ingenious when it comes to creative inspiration. Her class is designed to help you grip the whip and crack it!

Visit our Website http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org

Playwrights Foundation 1616-16th Street, Suite 350 | San Francisco, CA 94103 US

Playwrights Foundation March 2011- Playwriting Classes

Last Minute Comers: Liz Duffy Adams’ Short Plays, Hot & Fast
Class starts next Monday, March 21.

Liz is unquestionably among the very best theatrical language artists of our time. Chad Jones said: “Adams spins language like a juggler twirls chain saws…” and more recently Will Fulton of NYTheatre.com said: ” Adams’s script…crackles with wit and poetry.”

For two weeks on Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday evenings in March, she will impart techniques and tricks of mind to teach participants how to twirl linguistic chain saws and get sparks crackling from every turn of phrase.

A PERK FOR OUR READERS: A 15% discount can be had with a special discount code on the TBA Web site. Through March 20 only. FIVE AVAILABLE SPOTS! [Keep refreshing the TBA page until you see our ad.]

Lauren Gunderson: Playwriting as exploration!
Lauren Gunderson’s geeky, fun playwriting class, Play Math starts April 4th for 8 Monday nights, and it’s filling up.

The 40% discount has been EXTENDED to March 23rd!

Ummm…wait a second, 40% discount? For real? Why would we do such a thing? This class is SO AWESOME that we feel that this opportunity needs to be made widely available. Click here for more info and to register.

But, don’t take our word for it. Get a glimpse of the sublime run you would be in for: read Lauren’s latest PF blogpost!

About the Seattle production of Emilie: “An evening of humor and heartbreak with a powerhouse ending.” — BroadwayWorld

From the Atlanta production of Exit, Pursued by Bear: “If the Coen Brothers decided to set a feminist revenge tale in Atlanta and sprinkle it with Dixie Chicks pixie dust, it might look something like Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

New Class! Thomas Bradshaw, 3 Days — Kick In The Truth!
For a little taste of how to work the comedy of pure, unadulterated ‘id,’ take Thomas Bradshaw’s INTENSE three-day workshop: Truth on Stage. ONLY $102 through March 25th!

Subtext is so 2008, right? Try this: a splash of perversion, a dash of moral depravity, a tiny pinch of opportunity, and you get the truth spilling out. Dark, funny, powerful. That’s what Bradshaw will teach you.

This is a unique opportunity to explore an aspect of your characters (and your play) that you may not otherwise allow yourself to do.

Take a risk, we literally guarantee it’ll be a ride worth taking with the brilliant Thomas Bradshaw.

The class even includes a free reading of his play, The Ashes.

New Class! Anthony Clarvoe teaches in Berkeley!
Live in the East Bay and beyond?

Anthony Clarvoe’s class Full Tilt to the Finish Line is coming to your front door! Berkeley is going to be the newest home for this fan-favorite. Come see why this class sells out EVERY TIME!

10 Monday evenings: April 25th – June 20th (no class May 30th)

20% Early Bird Discount through April 1st ONLY.

This class will sell out, so sign up early.

“Anthony knows what works on stage and is excited about teaching it. His unbridled passion kept us all motivated and enjoying the process of writing.” – Robin Lynn Rodriguez, from the fall workshop

Opportunities with PF
Interns and volunteers needed for our programs!
We are taking applications for summer interns and producing interns. Contact Jill MacLean: jill@playwrightsfoundation.org

Our annual celebration fundraising event, Brunch With A Playwright, is April 10th at The Berkeley City Club. For information on hosting a table or becoming a volunteer, please contact Robyn Pottorff at robyn@playwrightsfoundation.org

Visit our website http://playwrightsfoundation.org/

Playwrights Foundation 1616-16th Street, Suite 350 | San Francisco, CA 94103 US

The Playwrights Foundation- March 5, 2011 Alumni News

Alumni News
This month (previews starting March 11) Rajiv Joseph’s BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO Bengal Tiger hits the Broadway Stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, starring Robin Williams! For those who don’t know, Bengal Tiger was originally done as a staged reading in our ROUGH Readings Series back in 2006.

Last month, PF alum Steve Yockey’s play AFTERLIFE moved from Lousiana’s Southern Rep to New Repertory in Waterford, Massachusetts and was met with rave reviews!

Liz Duffy Adams just closed DOG ACT (Developed at PF in 2002 and produced at Shotgun in 2004, won Glickman in 2005!) in NY at BAPF Alumni August Schulenburg’s Flux Theatre, also to rave reviews!

Lauren Gunderson’s EMILLIE is closing in Seattle at ArtsWest, and her play EXIT, PURSUED BY BEAR opens at Sychronicity Theatre in a week, and will be produced at Crowded Fire this summer.

Christine Evans just had a reading of her newest play CAN’T COMPLAIN at the Irish Repertory Theater in New York.

Bay Area BE PROUD!

Playwrights Foundation- Playwriting Workshops with Anthony Clarvoe & Liz Duffy Adams

Full Tilt to the Finish Line: Writing a Successful Full-length Play

Go The Distance with award-winning playwright Anthony Clarvoe.
[Become a fan of our Facebook Page for a secret code and get 20% discount.]

Wednesday evenings, March 2nd – May 11th! To learn more & register, go here.

“Anthony knows what works on stage and is excited about teaching it. His unbridled passion kept us all motivated and enjoying the process of writing.” — Robin Lynn Rodriguez, from the fall workshop

“Anthony’s 10 week class taught me more about theatre than I have learned in the last 10 years.” — Julia Brothers — Actress/Playwright, from the fall workshop

SHORT PLAYS, HOT & FAST with the spectacular Liz Duffy Adams

Study the short form with a true master: an award-winning word artist!

Early Bird 20% Discount through March 4

8 Spots still open.

Write three short plays in two weeks! The much touted author of Or, and Dog Act returns to PF to teach in a style that is quick, intense, and has surprising results. Final class is with professional actors!

PRESS ON LIZ’S WORK:

“Adams spins language like a juggler twirls chain saws…” — The Oakland Tribune

“Her language has a natural period flavor and a formidable wit; her characters possess the spark of fully animated spirits; and she weaves into her story both biographical detail and cultural context with grace.” — Charles Isherwood, comparing Liz to Tom Stoppard — The New York Times (Liz Duffy Adams’ Or,)

Playwrights Foundation- 2011 The New Play Institute Offers Four New Playwriting Classes

We are thrilled to announce the first four classes in the New Play Institute. Try a weekend intensive to kick-start a new project, or stretch into three months to complete a full-length play with one of these stellar instructors. Classes tend to sell out quickly, so be sure to get in and register early!

February 2-6 2011
From Harvard University
Dr. CHRISTINE EVANS, Ph.D.
Accidents and Found Objects
Award-winning writer and Harvard playwriting instructor Christine Evans returns to PF for a 4-day intensive weekend. Don’t miss a rare opportunity to explore the power of ordinary objects to inspire extraordinary writing!

Weds, Thurs, Sat, Sun (12 hours)
Regular Price: $300
Early Bird Price: $240 (20% by January 24th)

March 2 – May 11
ANTHONY CLARVOE
Award-winning author of Pick Up Ax & Ambition Facing West
Back By Popular Demand!

Full Tilt to the Finish Line: Writing a Successful Full-Length Play
Wednesday evenings, 10 classes
(no class March 23)

Learn to master the demands of the full-length form through skills, techniques, some endurance training, and a few tricks of the trade from a master veteran writer.

Cost: $475
Early Bird: $400 (by February 15th)

March 21-30
LIZ DUFFY ADAMS
Award winning author of OR, and DOG ACT returns to teach!

Short Plays Hot & Fast
Write three short plays in two weeks!
Quick, intense and surprising results with an inspired master of the word.
Final class is a workshop with actors.

Mon, Tues, & Wed Eves (6 classes in 2 weeks)
Regular Price: $350
Early Bird Price (by Feb 1st): $300
Click here for more information or to register

April 4-May 23
One of the hottest rising playwrights in the country!
LAUREN GUNDERSON
PlayMath: A Writing Geek’s Secret Guide To Dramatic Structure
(P.S. It’s Fun!)

Math? For Reals? Learn Lauren’s geeky way to have some serious fun with your writing and learn to think about your play in a whole new way. The results are an equation of their own…you do the math!

Monday evenings (9 classes)

Regular Price: $375
Early Bird Price (by March 15th ) $300
Best Regards,

Amy Mueller
Artistic Director

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Playwrights Foundation 1616-16th Street, Suite 350 | San Francisco, CA 94103 US

The Playwrights Foundation- THE TAO OF PLAYWRITING workshop

3 Spaces Left: The Tao of Playwriting
Starts February 6! 2010

        Back by popular demand, Liz Duffy Adams will again be teaching The Tao Of Playwriting. February 6-15: Write a play in ten days! Final session will include professional actors reading excerpts from your play.

Liz returns to our New Play Institute from her hugely successful off-Broadway run of Or,. Join her for this terrific class!

For more details and to register for one of these last 3 spaces go to http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=211

Sincerely,

Amy Mueller
Artistic Director

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