INSTANT PERFORMANCE WRITING with HEATHER WOODBURY

a three-day intensive for writers and performers on making work from the dramatic imagination

conducted by nationally acclaimed playwright and performer Heather Woodbury

winner of the Spalding Gray Award,OBIE Award,

Kennedy Center Fund For New American Plays Award,

NEA Playwright Fellow, and published "stand-up novelist".

September 25-27th, 2009

WHEN
Friday-Saturday 12-5:30pm,
Final class, Sunday, Sept. 27th, 12-6pm: Performance for invited audience-

WHERE
AT Workman's Circle Rehearsal Studios,
45 E.33rd St. between Park and Madison, NYC
Register by September 12th : $225/after: $300

WHAT
"Starting with the premise that the first impulse is the magic one, I will introduce you to my method of "instant performance," locating your innate capacity to give life to something that is fully formed from the moment you transmit it. We will then crystallize that initial impulse to point the way toward making work of lasting value.

In order for the originator of solo work to successfully captivate and hold an audience, rigorous demands must be met but also unique opportunities for invention are offered. This intensive workshop explores how these solo performance methods - of conjuring character, inventing natural speech and locating the stories inspired by places - can be applied to generating writing of every kind and to infusing performance with live-wire authenticity.

For playwrights, solo show originators, actors, and writers of all stripes, this is writing on the tongue and stage, as an alternate to, and rejuvenation of, writing on the page."

3 DAYS-Sept. 25,26, 27TH
Friday & Saturday12-5:30pm,
Final class, Sunday Sept. 27th, 12-6pm INCLUDES PERFORMANCE for invited audience.

Workman's Circle Rehearsal Studios,
45 E.33rd Street
between Park and Madison, NYC

Register by Sept. 12th:$225/After:$300

For more information visit: heatherwoodbury.com