The Workshop Whirlwind will take place in four sessions over 10 days.
The first session will be led by one of the six playwrights who have
been selected from across the country for PlayPenn's 2011 New Play
Development Conference. This session will inspire participants in the
creation of brand new ten-minute plays. The second and third sessions
will be led by a dramaturg, guiding Whirlwind playwrights in the
process of rewriting and refining the work. The fourth session will be a rehearsal with professional actors and director, immediately followed by a public reading of the plays during
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Four professional actors will join us for session #4 and the public reading to bring the wide array of characters Whirlwind participants have created to life. Where: Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom St, Philadelphia Enrollment by approval. Send a writing sample (no longer than 10 pages) and a brief bio or resume to: classes@playpenn.org. DEADLINE: June 10 If you are a member of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center or Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America and have a discount code to receive 10% off, please email it to classes@playpenn.org with your enrollment request. |
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WORKSHOP WHIRLWIND LEADERS: LAUREN YEE will be workshopping her new play A Man, his Wife, and his Hat at PlayPenn's 2011 conference this summer. Her other plays include Ching Chong Chinaman, Hookman, in a word, and Samsara. Born and raised in San Francisco, she has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, a Dramatists Guild fellow, and a Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member, and a finalist for the Heideman, the Jerome, the Princess Grace, the PONY Fellowship, and the Wasserstein Prize. Published by Samuel French, Ching Chong Chinaman has been produced at Impact Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Pan Asian Rep, and SIS Productions. Commissions: AlterTheater, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Kennedy Center, Mu Performing Arts (supported by the MAP Fund), and PlayGround. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD (2012).
REBECCA WRIGHT has served as the Literary Director and Resident Dramaturg at InterAct Theatre Company since 2008. This is her fourth summer working at PlayPenn. As a dramaturg, she has worked with Sean Christopher Lewis, Larry Loebell, Arden Kass, Elaine Romero, Seth Rozin, and Aditi Kapil, among others. Rebecca has directed with companies InterAct, Nice People, and MicroFest Philadelphia, and she directs and co-creates parallel narrative installation plays with her company, Applied Mechanics, whose pieces include Ses Voyages Sauvages, and last year's Fringe Festival hit Portmanteau, which has toured from Texas to Maine. Rebecca has worked with students at Temple University, Swarthmore College, Arcadia University, and the University of Michigan. She holds an MA in Performance and Culture from the University of London.
RICK DESROCHERS is an Associate Artist at the PlayPenn. He has served as the Literary Director for the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival and The Goodman Theatre of Chicago. Prior to his tenure at The Public Theater, he was the Artistic Director of the New Theater of Boston for six seasons, where he produced and directed over fifty new plays and musicals. He has been director and dramaturg for the New York Music Theatre Festival, the Public Theater, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Repertory Theatre/Circle East, Young Playwrights' Inc., Rude Mechanicals, and for regional theaters across the country including The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, The Goodman Theatre, PlayPenn Theatre Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Boston Center for the Arts, and Chicago Dramatists, as well as internationally for The Soho Theatre of London. DesRochers has taught in theatre departments across the country including Long Island University CW Post, the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program, New School University, Emerson College, and the Chicago Conservatory for the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in stage direction and dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently a Level II Ph.D. candidate in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. graphic by: sarahbmantell.com
