Fun Fundamentals & Flights of Fantasy

A Playwriting Workshop Have you been carrying around a zippy, fresh idea that you know would make a great play? Are questions about play structure holding you back? Is it a ten-minute play? Is it a one act? Is my idea big enough for a full-length?

How far can you let your imagination explore? Can you really have a talking parrot on stage!?

Do you know your idea is great but you're not sure if it fits within the "rules" of playwriting? Not sure what the "rules" of playwriting are?

Professor Caleen Sinnette Jennings
This two-time Helen Hayes Award nominee has been a professor of theatre in the Department of Performing Arts at American University since 1989. She was namd American University Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 2003. She received the Heideman Award from Actor's Theatre of Louisville in 2002. In the same year, she received an award for outstanding teaching of playwriting from the Playwright's Program of the Association of Theater in Higher Education. She holds an MFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School of Arts and a B.A. in Drama from Bennington College. Her published plays include Sunday Dinner, Playing Juliet/Casting Othello, Inns and Outs, and most recently,Elswhere in Elsinore

Two plays, which we hope you will read prior to the workshop, Two Trains Running by August Wilson and Poof by Lynn Nottage will be discussed. Two Trains Running is available in most libraries. As part of your registration fee, you will receive a copy of Lynn Nottage's collection, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which included Poof.

We will also have available for purchase two excellent writing guides recommended by Professor Jennings, The Art of the Playwright by William Packard and The Dramatist's Toolkit by Jeffrey Sweet.

May 17, 2008 2-5 pm

American University Katzen Arts Center

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW

$100 Registration Fee, $115 Day of Workshop

Class Size is Limited.

For more information email: info@blackwomenplaywrights.org or call (202) 635-2974