THE KICK-ASS SERIES: ACT ONE A Gonzo Playwriting Workshop in Four Parts
March 15 - April 6, 2008 - 1-4 pm
Attention Playwrights -- Experienced and Aspiring.
Admit it. You're not writing as much as you should. Or you're writing like crazy but it's not turning out the way it should. Or your inspiration keeps leaving for an extended holiday. Or you send out yourplay and the silence is deafening.
Maybe you're just no good
…But we doubt it.
WE CAN HELP
…by introducing a series of tools that you can use to jump-start your writing in a significant and meaningful way. The four sessions of this series are designed to motivate you to write kick-ass plays and to find your own unique voice and style along the way. It starts with some basics you didn't know you needed and then throws in some novel concepts that will kick you towards becoming the writer you were meant to be.
Part I: DRAIN YOUR BRAIN -- Getting Started. March 15
Part II: BUILD THE PLAY -- Creating Structure. March 29
Part III: TRIM THE HEDGE -- Developing Story. April 12
Part IV: FEED YOUR MUSE -- Finding Voice. April 26
Each session includes writing, reading, sharing, discussion, and critique. Participants must sign up for the whole four-part series and must provide their own writing materials. Space is limited - reserve your seat today!
HANK KIMMEL has written 72 plays, 50 of which have found production life somewhere in the United States. His work was recently featured at Jewish Theatre of the South - Hank Kimmel's Shorts (a comic cornucopia of life in the suburbs) -- and earned a People's Choice Award from Creative Loafing for "Best New Play." Hank also serves as the President of Working Title Playwrights and as a board member of Georgia Lawyers for the Arts. He is also a long-time member of the Dramatists Guild. He is a 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 kick-ass plays.
PAMELA TURNER is a playwright and director with credits in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific. She is the SE regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild and the Contributing Editor of ShowGuide magazine. Her most recent plays include Male Man (2007 Chester Horn Play Festival, TheatreRats, NYC – Best of Fest), 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 The Mother/Monster Project (2008, Re-Verb, Atlanta-Los Angeles);
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 also a semi-finalist for the 2006 PlayLabs at The Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, and for the 2006 SheWRITES competition at Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta. Male Man was a finalist for the 2004 Humana Festival Heideman Award. Turner is the Founding Artistic Director of multiShades•atlanta and the Producer of PlayWorks 2000, a national program of new work for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.
This program is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program of the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and in partnership with DeKalb Council for the Arts,
Inc..
Venue:
Stage Door Players5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd.
Dunwoody, GA
www.stagedoorplayers.net
Cost:
For WTP Affiliates: $110For General Public: $150
Contact:
Jill PatrickWorking Title Playwrights
managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com
404.441.2716