Playwrights Foundation- Dael Orlandersmith at the New Play Institute July 23-28

Dael Orlandersmith  at the New Play Institute July 23-28

Going Solo with Dael Orlandersmith July 23-28, 2013Unlock vivid language. Explore character. Tell your story live! Dael encourages truthful depictions in an atmosphere that is generous, audacious, courageous and rigorous. By Application Only Due June 15 APPLY HERE NOW!

“ writing is fierce, uncompromising and alive with sharply observed, humanizing detail…The characterizations are indelible…Orlandersmith is a riveting performer with an urgent tale to tell.”—San Francisco Chronicle

PRINCE GOMOLVILAS‘ Exploring the Dark SideClass is Filling! Starts this Saturday. Work with esteemed playwright and professor at USC to shine some light on the dark side of playwriting. Saturday Mornings May 18 – June 8 Only $225 Reserve your spot here!

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Playwrights Foundation- New Class Offerings April 11, 2013

Playwrights Foundation New Class Offerings April 11, 2013 NEW CLASS OFFERINGS FROM NPI! PRINCE GOMOLVILAS Exploring the Dark Side Saturdays, May 18 – Jun 8 4 Classes with USC Professor & Esteemed Playwright Prices start at $175 Thinking about exploring some dark terrain with your work? In the safe confines of the class, you will discuss how to thoughtfully and fearlessly navigate taboo topics and unsettling subject matter. LEARN MORE & REGISTER JASON GROTE Television for the Experimental Playwright  Fri, May 10 – Mon, May 13 4-Day Intensive with Mad Men Writer Prices start at $175 Translate your playwriting skills  to silver screen success. Spend 14 hours with Mad Men writer JASON GROTE exploring avant-garde writing techniques and unique possibilities as you create your very own TV Pilot. LEARN MORE & REGISTER ROUGH READINGS SERIES PRESENTS: JC LEE’S FORGETTING Monday, April 22 @ 7:30pm at Roble Hall, Stanford University Tuesday, April 23 @ 7:00pm at NOHspace, SF LEARN MORE HAVE A TAX RETURN? SHARE IT WITH US   OUR STUDIO FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN ENDS ON APRIL 16! HELP US REACH $5,000 HERE! Lauren Gunderson’s Finding the Simple Story  class at the New Play Institute

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Playwrights Foundation- RESOLVE TO WRITE IN 2013 Playwriting Classes at the New Play Institute

RESOLVE TO WRITE IN 2013! Plawriting classes at the New Play Institute  start Saturday, January 12. Get nurturing support to kickstart your 2013 goals from professional writers. Early bird purchase discounts for all classes. Payment Plans and Partial Scholarships Available Upon Request Find Your Center with Eugenie Chan - STARTS JAN 12 Writing Backwards with Lauren Gunderson - ONE DAY WORKSHOP JAN 13 Writing the Experimental Urban Play with Chinaka Hodge - 10 WEEK COURSE  Full Tilt to the Finish Line! with Anthony Clarvoe - EAST BAY LOCATION Visit our Website www.playwrightfoundation.org

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Playwrights Foundation- New Play Institute, August 20-23, 2012 with Marcus Gardley & Bay Area Playwrights Festival & New Play Symposium for Theater Professionals and Aficionados Form V.S. Content: Who’s Your Mama?

Playwrights Foundation- New Play Institute, August 20-23, 2012 with Marcus Gardley & Bay Area Playwrights Festival & New Play Symposium for Theater Professionals and Aficionados
Form V.S. Content: Who’s Your Mama?

“The time has come,” the playwright said, “To write of many things…”

Are you a playwright, spoken word artist, poet, novelist, journalist and/or lyricist who wants to make your work come alive in a performance setting?

See the Festival this weekend and study in August with Marcus Gardley, accomplished playwright, professor and Bay Area Playwrights Festival Alumnus.

New Play Institute, August 20-23, 2012.
(Full price paid by July 27 includes a
Bay Area Playwrights Festival VIP Pass!)

$300 – Early Bird Registration: $225
if paid in full by August 6.

Register NOW!

BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL NEWS!
WEEK TWO STARTS FRIDAY
Tickets are selling fast

New Play Symposium for Theater Professionals and Aficionados
Form V.S. Content: Who’s Your Mama?

Friday, July 27: 2pm-5:00pm at Thick House
RSVP to rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org
Live Streamed on #newplaytv 2pm PST (5pm EST)

FREE!!

Please join us for a lively conversation and showcase about theatrical aesthetics.
With Lauren Gunderson leading a conversation with Mark Jackson, Abi Basch and Members of kInDeRdEuTsCh pRoJeKtS, Laura Hope and JC Lee.

A reception will follow the symposium.

How and/or when does form take focus over content (and visa versa)? In what ways do they inform each other, and how does that impact the audience’s perception? What comes first and how do playwrights determine the governing logic of their plays when exploring newly charted territory in theatrical structure?

Through conversations and debates, we will address the elements of form that are wedded to content, and we will attempt to understand the enigma: “Which came first, the form or the content?”

Playwright Lauren Gunderson [LINK TO http://www.laurengunderson.com (EXIT, PURSUED BY BEAR, EMILIE) moderates this symposium and discusses her thoughts. Playwrights will also discuss their work in these terms as well as provide video presentations depicting their processes.

PF RECOMMENDS!!

SNAP & KINDERDEUTSCH PROJEKTS PRESENT
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
ARCTIC HYSTERIA
A NEW PLAY BY ABI BASCH
JULY 26 – AUGUST 4

AT BINDLESTIFF STUDIO
185 6TH STREET IN SAN FRANCISCO
PREVIEW JULY 26 AT 8PM

PERFORMANCES JULY 27-29 & AUGUST 2-4 AT 8PM; AUGUST 4 AT 2PM
TICKETS $10-25 AT HTTP://WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM/EVENT/252113

PF RECOMMENDS!!
TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival
The Festival is the birthplace of such hits as EMMA, THE NORTH POOL
and the Tony Award-winning MEPHIS.
See them first!

At the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, August 5-19. Visit http://www.theatreworks.org for tickets.

THE TROUBLE WITH DOUG (Developmental Production: Musical)Music by Will Aronson; Lyrics by Daniel Maté; Book by Will Aronson & Daniel Maté Directed by Stephen Brackett
BEING EARNEST (Staged Reading: Musical)
Music by Paul Gordon & Jay Gruska; Book & Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Directed by Robert Kelley
TRIANGLE (Staged Reading: Musical)
Music by Curtis Moore; Lyrics by Thomas Mizer; Book by Thomas Mizer, Curtis Moore & Joshua Scher
Directed by Meredith McDonough
SLEEPING ROUGH (Staged Reading: Play)
By Kara Manning
Directed by Sam Buntrock
THE LOUDEST MAN ON EARTH (Staged Reading: Play)
By Catherine Rush
Directed by Pamela Berlin

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Playwrights Foundation – 1616-16th Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA, 94103, (415) 626-2176
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Playwrights Foundation- Crack That Proverbial Whip, Creative Minds! Playwriting Class

Crack That Proverbial Whip, Creative Minds!

We are pleased to extend a discount for Eugenie Chan’s popular, tried-and-true, get-off-your-laurels-and-finally-finish-that-draft class with the PF New Play Institute! If you or someone you know has had that play in a drawer and is hoping 2012 is the year to meet that goal, Eugenie’s class is the perfect environment to nudge it into reality. Save 20% if you sign up and register by February 20th.

Crack That Whip with Eugenie Chan
Go from solid ideas to a solid first draft in 10 weeks!

DATES:
February 28th – May 1st, 2012 (no class April 3)

COST:
Regular Cost: $375
Discount Cost: $300 (save 20%)

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!
EXTRA DISCOUNT: $300 if paid by Feb 20th! / Regular Price $375

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

“Eugenie is a wonderful teacher. 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. Also (despite the title of the course), she’s a generous and kind guide who puts the focus on the work (rather than, say, herself). It’s a pure pleasure to be in the room with her.”
–Elizabeth Gjelten, playwright, BAPF alum & NPI student

“I drafted my new play in Eugenie Chan’s workshop in 2009, and recently rewrote it during Anthony Clarvoe’s workshop. The play has been accepted for production in San Francisco this August! Eugenie creates a safe, thoughtful and creative space for writers. Her generous instruction and creative exercises were instrumental in getting the play developed thus far. I recommend Eugenie’s PF workshop highly.”
–Patricia, playwright & NPI student

“…[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 Special Discount for Playwriting Class

Playwrights Foundation offers a big THANK YOU to all former New Play Institute students!

The Playwrights Foundation is offering special discount to all of you, as a thank you for supporting the New Play Institute! Another class has been added in San Francisco taught by the extraordinary Anthony Clarvoe. His Berkeley class sold out quickly, so we opened a new section which will begin on Sept 28th and run through November 16th.

The class fee is $450, but you can purchase the class for $385.00! The class is filing up quickly, so reserve your spot today…

To register, please follow this link: http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=237

To purchase the class on the Event Brite website please enter the discount code: ACFALL2.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2109986025

Thanks so much for your interest in the Playwrights Foundation, and happy writing!!

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The Playwrights Foundation- Kicks Off Fall Season at the New Play Institute with Playwright Anthony Clarvoe

Kicking off our fall season (2011) at the New Play Institute is award-winning playwright Anthony Clarvoe, who returns to teach his sold-out series in the East Bay. This wildly popular instructor offers his class: I think I (maybe… kind of… sort of… might…no, do…) Have The First Draft of a Play! (Now what do I do?) – which is a sequel to his previous classes on the full-length play.

Each class period will offer specific tools and techniques that address the process of revisions and rewrites, and give the tools you need to submit finished work to festivals, workshops and theaters once you’re done.

Here’s the catch: there are only four spots remaining of twelve total. This class will sell out, so be sure to register.

Class Description:

Have you accomplished the Herculean task of completing your first (or early) draft? Congratulations! Your family and friends are impressed. Your writers’ group has given you a lot of useful feedback. You’ve got pages of notes, but you aren’t really sure where to go from here.

Enter Anthony Clarvoe, a 25-year veteran playwright who has won commissions, awards and multiple productions for plays ranging from two-handers to big-cast epics. Over eight weeks Anthony will share methods and techniques that will enable you to help you figure out how to enter the revision phase of playwriting gracefully and confidently. It is open to anyone with a finished first draft. I think I Have The First Draft…meets:

Monday Evenings, September 12-November 14 (8 sessions)
(no class on Oct 10th or Oct 31st)
7pm – 10pm

•5% Early Bird Discount MUST REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 2ND
The class will meet in Berkeley at a location central to public transportation and near to public parking lots.

◦”Anthony is a fantastic instructor! I’ve taken a bunch of playwriting classes [in the bay area] and elsewhere, and no one compares to him.”
◦”Anthony Clarvoe’s workshop is the BEST class I’ve taken through Playwrights Foundation.”
Full details and registration at http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=134

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