THE KENNEDY CENTER PLAYWRITING INTENSIVE
July 6-20, 2008

Led by Gary Garrison,
Executive Director for Creative Affairs, The Dramatists Guild

And special master classes with:
Lee Blessing, Mark Bly, Melanie Marnich, David Ives, Ken Ludwig, Carlos Murillo, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Heather McDonald, Marsha Norman, Howard Shalwitz and others
Associate Director: Cathy Norgren
Actors-in-Residence: Jennifer Mendenhall and Rick Foucheux 

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 rigorous writing workshops and discussions of the art, craft and business of playwriting with the Program's Director, Gary Garrison and a wide range of distinguished guest artists.

Classes will meet 10am-12:30pm, 1:30-6pm daily. Informal concert readings of participants' work will be scheduled in the evening during the two-week period. Sunday, July 13th is free.

Participants will visit the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on Saturday, July 12 for sessions with Artistic Director Ed Herendeen, the playwrights-in-residence J.T. Rogers, Greg Kotis, Lydia Diamond and Richard Dresser, and to attend two of the plays premiering at CATF.

During week two, member theatres of the National New Play Network (NNPN) will be in residence at the Intensive to develop a new play being considered jointly by those institutions. Intensive participants will be observers of the process, and have access to and sessions with the artistic team during the week.  

Playwriting Intensive participants will be accepted in three tracks in 2008 (all tracks will have sessions with each of the guest artists):
-Fundamentals
-Intermediate/Advanced
-Teachers of Playwriting. This track will include daily seminars on effective strategies for teachers in addition to the master classes. 

Tuition:

$850
$750 for students or faculty from KCACTF participating institutions
$600 for faculty and students whose home institutions are offering scholarship or professional development support for this program

Housing:
Housing information will be available in the early spring. Prices start at $40 per night.

To Apply:

-a writing and/or teaching resume

-a letter of motivation for attending

-ten pages of a playwriting sample

by: Friday, March 28th. Invited participants will be notified by April 25th.

(Early submission and acceptance notification is 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