Playwriting
July 5-17, 2004
With
Gary Garrison
And special master classes by
Marsha Norman
Lee Blessing,
Ken Ludwig
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 9am-noon, 1-6pm daily. Sunday, July 11th 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:
9 professional playwrights and/or instructors of playwriting and 9 student playwrights will be selected for the program
To Apply
-a writing and/or teaching resume
-a brief statement of purpose for attending
-ten pages of a playwriting sample
Deadline:
Friday, April 2nd. Participants will be notified by April 30th.
(Early submission and acceptance notification may be possible if applicants’ home institutions have earlier professional development funding deadlines. Please inquire at the e-mail address above)
to:
KCACTF Playwriting
The Kennedy Center
PO Box 10808
Arlington, VA 22210
Or by attached Microsoft Word documents to ghenry@kennedy-center.org
The Coordinator
Gary Garrison is a fulltime faculty member and Artistic Director of the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has produced the last 16 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: ‘Night Mother (Pulitzer Prize), The Secret Garden (Tony Award), Getting Out, Last Dance, and others
Lee Blessing: The Scottish Play, Eleemosynary, Two Rooms, A Walk in the Woods, Down the Road, Cobb, and many others
Ken Ludwig: Shakespeare in Hollywood, Lend Me a Tenor, Crazy for You, Moon Over Buffalo, and others
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts