Adaptation with Jake Mariani
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This class pairs lively discussions of adaptations in the Western cannon with hands-on workshopping time for students’ own adaptations. Each week, students will be encouraged to write a new fragmented excerpt based on a different play read in class. By the end of class, students will have generated several different pieces that have potential to be expanded into full-length plays.
October 3, 10, 17, and 24; 7-9pm
Young Playwrights Independence Foundation Learning Lab (1219 Vine Street, 3rd Floor); Philadelphia, PA
Be ready to read some plays, watch some production videos, and write some fragments!
Jake Anthony Mariani has studied poetry with Kathleen Ossip at The New School; and playwriting with Kathleen Tolan, Madeleine George, Anne Washburn, Sarah DeLappe, and Lucas Hnath at Rutgers University (M.F.A in Playwriting). Their work has received readings at the Ensemble Studio Theater and has been performed at Dixon Place. They have contributed to the Poetry Magazine, Sink Review. They are a founding member of the performance group hotdogfuguestate.
$150
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