| Career Development Session with Celise Kalke - Alliance Director of New Projects |
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What are the Atlanta stories for the theatre? Join Alliance Director of New Projects to talk about writing about or for Atlanta. Saturday, May 15, 2010, 11am-1pm. Space is limited. What are the stories our community needs and how do these stories need to be told? What is the relationship between content and audience development? How do playwrights choose content? What is the relationship between content and form? What is the process of turning research into a play? How can your voice and personal experiences be shaped into something your community is interested in? How do you choose theatrical collaborators? You will have an opportunity to pitch Celise ideas as well as talk about how content can shape a creative writing process AND how content can determine collaboration. In addition Celise will spend time talking about career development especially resources outside of Atlanta and take questions about other theatre communities and the national market place. WHEN: Saturday, May 15, 2010 TIME: 11am-1pm COST: $30 WTP Members / $50 non-members SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS: Jill Patrick, WTP's Managing Artistic Director, at 404.441.2716 or via e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Celise Kalke joined the staff of the Alliance Theatre in 2005 where she serves as the Director of New projects, managing Kendeda Graduate Playwright Competition, new play development and serving as a production dramaturg. She was featured American Theatre as a top 25 American Theatre leaders of the future in their 25th Anniversary issue. She curated the Atlanta 365 days/plays project (the shared world premiere of the Suzan-Lori Parks epic). From 2003-2005 she was the Director of the Literary Department at The Public Theater (NYC) under George C. Wolfe where she managed commissions including f.m.c. by John Guare (being produced at Lincoln Center in 2010), Satellites by Diana Son and The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson as well producing the New Work Now reading series and working as the dramaturg for all the Public’s Shakespeare productions. She co wrote the 2003 runner-up of the Manifesto Competition for The Neo-Romantic Manifesto and received an LMDA dramaturgy driven grant for a future manifesto about hyper-realism. She maintains artistic relationships with the Actor’s Express (Atlanta), Next Theater (Chicago) and Independent Art HERE (NYC) |
