Faculty Playwrighting

Information will be posted as it comes available

Playwriting
July 3-15, 2006

Led by Gary Garrison

And special multi-day master classes by:
Melanie Marnich,
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,
Steven Dietz,
Carlyle Brown,
Heather McDonald,
Marsha Norman,
Craig Lucas

And others....

A two-week playwriting intensive at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Participants are university students, faculty and young professionals from across the country.

The program consists of writing workshops and discussions of the business of playwriting with the Program's Coordinator, playwright and author Gary Garrison and a wide range of distinguished guest artists.

Some of  Washington  D.C.'s leading playwrights, dramaturgs, literary managers, artistic directors and producers will provide one-on-one response sessions to the participants' work.

Classes will meet 9:30am-noon, 1-6pm daily. Staged readings of participants work will be scheduled in the evening during the two week period. Sunday, July 9th is free

Tuition:
$900
$850 for faculty or students from KCACTF participating institutions
$800 for faculty and students whose home institutions are offering scholarship or professional development support for this opportunity

Housing:
Is available at a rate of $40 per night- or $560 for the entire master class period- shared lodging- in the George Washington University Residence Halls, within easy walking distance to the Kennedy Center.

Participants
18 playwrights will be selected for the program

To Apply

-a writing and/or teaching resume
-a brief statement of motivation for attending
-ten pages of a playwriting sample

by: Friday, April 21st. Participants will be notified by May 5th.
(Early submission and acceptance notification may be possible if
applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development
funding deadlines. Please inquire.)
 
By attached Microsoft Word or PDF documents to ghenry@kennedy-center.org

Or to:

KCACTF Playwriting
The Kennedy Center
PO Box 101510
Arlington, VA 22210

The Coordinator
Gary Garrison is the Artistic Director of First Look Theatre Company,
Producer and a fulltime faculty member of the Goldberg School of
Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has produced the
last 18 Festival of New Works for NYU, working with over 300
playwrights, 150 directors, and hundreds of actors. At NYU, he annually
produces the Marathon Festival of One-Act Plays, The Ten-Minute Play
Festival, and The Screenwriting Festival. Garrison's plays include We
Make A Wall (Empty Space Theatre), The Big Fat Naked Truth (Brooklyn
Playworks, Circle Rep Lab, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Spectrum Stage,
Manhattan Punchline, Alice's Fourth Floor, Second Generation Theatre
Company) Scream With Laughter (Expanded Arts, Pulse EnsembleTheatre)
Gawk (Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Turnip Theatre Festival), Scream With
Laughter, Smoothness With Cool (Expanded Arts) Empty Rooms (Miranda
Theatre, Sienna Theatre), Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou? (New York
Rep), and When A Diva Dreams (Miranda Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre Company,
MetroStage, African Globe Theatre Works). Scenes and monologues from We
Make A Wall and When A Diva Dreams were included in the Best Men's
Monologues of 1997, Best Women's Monologues of 1997, and Best Stage
Scenes of 1997 (Smith & Kraus, Inc.) Gawk was recently published in A
Grand Entrance: Scenes and Monologues for Mature Audiences. Heineman
Press recently published his books Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing
the 10-Minute Play and Monologues for Men by Men , following the
enormous success of A Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in
Your Work and Out of Your Life. He is a regular contributor to The
Dramatist, the monthly publication of the Dramatists Guild.

Marsha Norman: The Color Purple, 'Night Mother (Pulitzer Prize), The
Secret Garden (Tony Award), Getting Out, Trudy Blue, Last Dance...

Melanie Marnich: Cradle of Man, Tallgrass Gothic, Blur, Quake, The
Sparrow Project...

Steven Dietz: God's Country, Lonely Planet, Private Eyes, Fiction,
Inventing Van Gogh...

Carlyle Brown: The African Company Presents Richard III, Buffalo Hair,
The Negro of Peter the Great...

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: The Mystery Plays, The Velvet Sky, Rough Magic,
The Muckle Man, writer for Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four

Heather McDonald: An Almost Holy Picture, Faulkner's Bicycle, The End of
the Affair (Opera with Jake Heggie)...

Craig Lucas: The Dying Gaul (play and screenplay), Prelude to a Kiss
(play and screenplay), Light in the Piazza, Blue Window, Reckless (play
and screenplay), Longtime Companion (screenplay), The Secret Lives of
Dentists (screenplay)...