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Playwrights! Get the feedback you need, develop your authentic playwriting voice. You know those times when:
For a starting point, we look at Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process, and the guidelines for developing questions created by David Rush at Southern Illinois State University. Do you have a feedback process you like? Bring it along!
Anything that helps you get the feedback you need. For example:
The group is meant for playwrights who are actively writing and looking for production opportunities for their plays. You don't have to have had a production yet, though that is a plus.
The group will meet for six months, starting mid-January and ending mid-July. We'll take the rest of the summer off, then re-group in September to decide what we want to do next. The first meeting is Sunday, January 24th. Then we meet the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month from February through June. The last meeting is July 11th (so we don't meet on the 4th of July weekend). The meetings are 3:00 to 5:00. When the days get longer, we can change this to later if everyone agrees, so we can all take advantage of the longer days. The group is limited to eight playwrights, so everyone gets lots of time. If you belong to another playwrights' group, you don't have to write new material just for this group (unless you want to). Bring what you've brought to other groups, get a different perspective. Meetings will be in and around Seattle, depending on where people live.
Just e-mail me these things:
The deadline to apply is December 1st. I will let everyone know by January 4th, 2010.
Here are my answers to the questions above. A play I've worked on in the past six months: http://www.wonderworks.com/louisep/ThePlatinumCrucible.pdf and one in the past year: http://www.wonderworks.com/louisep/NoMoreThanReason.pdf My resume is at http://www.wonderworks.com/louisep/LouisePenberthy.pdf I've been in a playwrights' group for nine months, and have visited two others. I also worked on giving feedback in the New Play Lab at Freehold this past summer. I use Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process, and the guidelines for creating questions in David Rush's paper. I would like to get, from this group, more skills in figuring out what questions to ask and how to ask them, so I get feedback that helps me write what I really am trying to write. I also want to practice giving other playwrights the same kind of feedback on their plays.
... email me at louisep@wonderworks.com, and I can get you in touch with other groups in the area.
Send me an e-mail: louisep@wonderworks.com.
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