The Kick-Ass Series: A Gonzo Writing Workshop
September 8h, 2007 at 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Part Three: Trim the Hedge - Developing Story
with Hank Kimmel and Pamela Turner
Attention Playwrights -- Experienced and Aspiring.
Admit it. You never write as much as you should. Sometimes you don't have the time. Sometimes you don't have the inspiration. Sometimes you have the time and the inspiration, but you're either not in the right frame of mind or you don't have the right tools. We know how this is. And we can help -- by sharing some innovative techniques we learned as Playwriting Fellows at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. this past summer.
The four-part Kick-Ass Playwriting Series is designed to motivate all playwrights to write kick-ass plays. Writing a good play, of course, requires many things. But you can't get to the glorious finish if you don't soar from the start.Part I of the Series, "Drain Your Brain," is an active, hands-on workshop where participants learn to take spontaneous ideas and concepts, and turn them into something dramatically scintillating. Led by Pamela Turner and Hank Kimmel, who will ensure all playwrights have the chance to write, read and share. All you need is a pen, sketch pad, and open mind (and heart). Be ready to play. Let yourself be surprised. But sign up soon! Space is limited and we want you to take this adventure with us
Check out pictures from our last Kick-Ass Workshop on Flickr!
Upcoming:
Part IV -- Feed Your Muse: Finding Voice
HANK KIMMEL has been crafting plays since he first learned how to write -- which was shortly after college. He has written scores of plays of various lengths and sensibilities, and, mercifully, 44 of them have been produced. His work will soon be featured at Jewish Theatre of the South - Hank Kimmel's Shorts (a comic cornucopia of life in the suburbs) will be its Spring Production (April 28-May 20). Hank also serves as the President of Working Title Playwrights and as a board member of Georgia Lawyers for the Arts. He is the proud graduate of Brown University, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and the Emory University School of Law. While he enjoys working as a mediator by day, he gets particularly turned on by playing kick-ass tennis and writing kick-ass plays.
PAMELA TURNER is a playwright and director with credits in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific. Her most recent plays include Voices Deux (2007 New Plays Festival, Theatre Decatur, Atlanta); Cosmeticos, (2006 XPT Adult Series, Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta); Funny Valentine (2004, Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta; 2004 Spoleto Festival USA); The Lady and the Poet (2003 Spoleto Festival USA; 2003 and 1994, Theatre Gael, Atlanta); Valentines Day (2001, Pulse Theatre Ensemble, NYC). Current projects include Frijoles on the Side (2006, commission, Fly-By Theatre, Atlanta); Burning Man,( 2006 Stage 3 Theatre Company's Festival of New Plays, Sonora, California). Burning Man was a semi-finalist for the 2006 PlayLabs at The Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, and the 2006 SheWRITES competition, Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta. Male Man was a finalist for the 2004 Humana Festival Heideman Award. Pamela is the Artistic Director of multiShades•atlanta, the (SE) Regional Rep for The Dramatists Guild of America, the Editor of ShowGuide magazine, and the Producer of PlayWorks 2000, for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.
Venue:
Academy Theatre119 Center Street
Avondale Estates, GA
www.academytheatre.org
Cost:
For WTP Affiliates: $25For General Public: $40
Contact:
Jill PatrickWorking Title Playwrights
managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com