| 01-11-08 WTPs First Playwrights' Salon 2008 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jill Patrick, 404.441.2716, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Date: January 11, 2008 Working Title Playwrights Presents Playwrights' Salon 2008 Decatur, GA – Working Title Playwrights (WTP), Atlanta's leading play-development organization, announces its 2008 Playwrights' Salon, open-to-the public, roundtable workshops of new, full-length plays in development, on Monday, January 14th and Monday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m. at Academy Theatre, 119 Center St, Avondale Estates, GA with Nick Boretz's Travels in the American Night. Nick Boretz's plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York City, and Atlanta, and have garnered awards including the Samuel Goldwyn Writing competition, a Shubert Foundation Fellowship to the University of Minnesota and the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. His play "Shelter Area" is published in Playwrights for Tomorrow, Vol. 2. Erin Weller is this workshop's dramaturg/director and member of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas. Erin's dramaturgical experience includes work with 7 Stages, Alliance Theatre, Crossover Movement Arts, Florida Studio Theatre, Oglethorpe University, Synchronicity Performance Group, and Theatre Gael. Nick's is the first of three WTP Affiliate scripts selected by an independent panel for development in these two-phase roundtable workshops, on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of January, March and May. A roundtable workshop is a developmental reading of the script by professional actors, the playwright and dramaturg/director, working around a table, and guests in the audience. These theatre professionals hear the dialogue, analyze the story, work through revealed problems, and two weeks later, return to hear and continue development of the playwright's revisions. Please join us at Academy Theatre, 119 Center St, Avondale Estates, GA, Monday, January 14th, at 7:00 p.m., and again on Monday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $5. For more information, please contact WTP at 404.441.2716 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Working Title Playwrights, Inc., is a professional theatre company dedicated to the development and promotion of playwrights and new plays. Its mission is to provide all playwrights with the chance to excel -- by helping them tell their stories for stage; fostering the development of well-crafted plays; and increasing the visibility of theatre in Atlanta and beyond. Incorporated in 2003 as a non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status, WTP serves its mission by featuring workshops and education seminars, public and private readings, and collaborative programs with other recognized local, regional and national artists and cultural arts groups. |
