Writers in the Mountains offers Playwriting Workshops and Classes
Writers in The Mountains (WIM), with the help of a generous grant from The New York State Council on the Arts’ Decentralization program is augmenting its popular 10-Minute Playwriting workshops to add opportunities for those playwrights who are veterans of the past six years and for experienced playwrights who are working to fine-tune works in progress.
This spring, WIM will sponsor two playwriting classes and a series of readings and performances. Frank Canavan will once again facilitate the workshops, and Mindy Pfeffer will serve as producer for the readings and performances. “We wanted to open up the opportunities for playwrights, and we wanted to insure that all the pieces that come out of the classes are presented to the public in as professional a manner as possible, “ says Jill Ribich, the Vice President of WIM. “The ‘Writing the Ten-Minute Play’ classes have been going on for over six years and have resulted in a lot of enjoyment for the playwrights and audiences. “
“Writing the Ten-Minute Play” will be for relative beginners or for people who want to write a new 10-minute play. Playwrights who have been enrolled in the previous classes are welcome to sign up again, and any writer with any level of experience will find this class a valuable introduction to the craft of writing for the stage.
This class will meet Sundays March 4, 11, and 18 at RAG from 1-4 pm. There will be a rehearsed reading of all plays from this class at the coffee house in Stamford on April 15th at 2 pm. and a final class will be held on Sunday , April 22 at RAG from 1-4 pm. $75.00 . Class size is limited to 8 people, so register early.
“Advanced Playwriting” is for playwrights who want
to work on longer pieces , fine tune old pieces or want to hone their skills
in specific areas such as dialogue, plotting, pacing, etc. This
class will meet in two sections, each limited to 5 participants.
Section 1: Sundays, April 29, May 6, 13 1-3 pm.
Section 2: Sundays April 29, May 6, 13, 3:15 - 5:15 $75.00/
A reading of all plays (or sections of all plays, depending on length)
will be held in Stamford at Performance Plus coffee house on
June 3. Final classes will be on June 10.
A panel of judges will select the best pieces from all the classes to be given a fully staged production in Stamford at the Carriage House Theater On Sat. October 13th at 7 pm and on Sunday, October 14 at 2 pm.
Frank Canavan, with wife Joyce St. George, owns and operates Pact Training in New Kingston. Pact combines the use of drama and facilitation techniques to create effective human dynamics training. Frank has been active in several local theater productions, and taught “Writing the Ten-Minute Play” for WIM in 2006.
Mindy Pfeffer is a theater artist living in New York City and Halcott Center. She has directed taught and performed at the Roxbury Arts Group and Open Eye Theater and was the producer for the Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Roxbury Arts Group in 2005. Her one-person show Out of the Box received a Decentralization Grant in 2005 and was selectedto be in the Six Figures Theater Company’s Artists of Tomorrow Festival in November 2006. She is a member of the Woodstock Fringe Playwrights Unit, Actors Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild.
These classes, readings and performances were partially funded by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program, administered in Delaware County by The Roxbury Arts Group.
Please sign up early by calling: 607 326-7908 or register on line at writersinthemountains.org.