summer playwriting intensive

BROOKE AND ANNE ARE WONDERFUL WRITERS - LET THEM KNOW YOU WERE REFERRED BY SUSAN JOHNSTON.

Do you want to rediscover the joy of writing for yourself in a supportive environment? Do you have a play you're dying to write? The desire to create but no structure or deadline to hold you accountable?

Brooke Berman and Anne Garcia-Romero will lead a four week eight session workshop this June and July designed to lead you to the creation of a first draft of a new play. Participants will develop both the musculature of authentic, connected writing and the structural tools to write a play.

Wednesday evenings will be devoted to in-class writing exercises - this will act as the spine of the class, opening each writer's voice and connection to source material, accessing the deeper mind and imagination to create rich play material. Saturday afternoons, writers will share pages with one another and receive feedback and support.

This workshop is perfect for writers at all levels who want to immerse themselves in the experience of writing a play.

The workshop will be limited to 10 writers.

WHEN: June 13 to July 7, Wednesdays 7-9pm, Saturdays 12-2pm

WHERE: The Fountain Theater, 5060 Fountain Avenue, LA, CA 90069, http://www.fountaintheatre.com/

COST: $300

QUESTIONS: Please contact Anne at agaro@aol.com

Anne Garcìa-Romero's plays have been developed and produced most notably at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Arielle Tepper Productions' Summer Play Festival, The Mark Taper Forum, and South Coast Repertory. She's taught at Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, Wesleyan University and Macalester College. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is a member of New Dramatists. Her play Earthquake Chica opens this June at Borderlands Theater in Tuscon, AZ.

Brooke Berman's plays have been produced at the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, The Second Stage in NYC, The Play Company, Naked Angels and The Ohio Theater; developed at Arielle Tepper's SPF, The National Theatre in London, The Royal Court Theatre in London, Williamstown Theater Festival, Soho Rep, ASK, Cleveland Playhouse, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists and numerous other places. She has been teaching creative process for 9 years and has taught playwriting at Eugene Lang College, University of Rochester, New Dramatists in NYC as well as through guest artist programs in the NYC public school system. Brooke is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Her play Hunting and Gathering opens next winter at Primary Stages in NYC.

Both Brooke and Anne are resident playwrights at New Dramatists, a national organization that supports the work of playwrights. Both Brooke and Anne have studied with Maria Irene Fornes