[kcactf3] kcactf summer intensives: playwriting, july 8-21, 2007--Please Post

[Ken Martin]

KCACTF summer intensives: playwriting, july 8-21, 2007



*KENNEDY CENTER SUMMER INTENSIVES*

*PLAYWRITING*

*July 8-21, 2007*

*Led by Gary Garrison, Executive Director for Creative Affairs, The
Dramatists Guild*

*And special master classes with:*

*Melanie Marnich,*

*Dael Orlandersmith, *

*Cathy Norgren,*

*Caleen Sinnette Jennings,*

*Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,*

*Steven Dietz,*

*Heather McDonald,*

*Marsha Norman,*

*Karen Zacarias, *

*Howard Shalwitz, *

*And others….*

A two-week playwriting intensive at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.  Participants are university students, faculty and young
professionals from across the country.

The program consists of writing workshops and discussions of the business of
playwriting with the Program's Director, Gary Garrison and a wide range of
distinguished guest artists.

Some of  Washington  D.C.'s leading playwrights, dramaturgs, literary
managers, artistic directors and producers will provide one-on-one response
sessions to the participants' work.

Classes will meet 9:30am–noon, 1-6pm daily. Informal concert readings of
participants' work will be scheduled in the evening during the two-week
period. Sunday, July 15th is free

*Tuition: *

*$900 *

*$850 for faculty or students from KCACTF participating institutions*

*$800 for faculty and students whose home institutions are offering
scholarship or professional development support for this opportunity*

*Housing:*

*Housing information will be available in the early spring. Prices start at
$40 per night. *

*To Apply*

-a writing and/or teaching resume

-a brief statement of motivation for attending

-ten pages of a playwriting sample

*by: Friday, March 30th. Invited participants will be notified by April
27th. *

*(Early submission and acceptance notification may be possible if
applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development funding
deadlines. Please inquire.)*

By attached Microsoft Word or PDF documents to ghenry at kennedy-center.org

Or to:

KCACTF Playwriting

The Kennedy Center

PO Box 101510

Arlington, VA 22210

*The Director*

GARY GARRISON was recently appointed Executive Director of the Dramatist
Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and
composers. For the past ten years he has filled the posts of Artistic
Director, Producer and full‑time faculty member in the Department of
Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has produced the last
eighteen Festivals of New Works for NYU, working with hundreds of
playwrights, directors and actors. Garrison's plays include* Storm on Storm,
It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding The
Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds*, *Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall*
,* The Big Fat Naked Truth,* *Scream With Laughter*, *Smoothness With Cool*,
*Empty Rooms*,* Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou?* and *When A Diva Dreams
*. This work has been featured at Primary Stages, The Directors Company,
Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre,
African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New
York Rep. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, *The Playwright's
Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life*, *Perfect
Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten‑Minute Play,* two volumes of  *Monologues
for Men by Men* (all Heinemann Press), and the *KCACTF's Best Student Plays
of 2006*. He is a the program director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive
for the Kennedy Center, the former National Chair of Playwriting for the
Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival and recipient of the
Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the Association of Theatre in Higher
Education.

Marsha Norman:* The Color Purple*, '*Night Mother* (Pulitzer Prize),* The
Secret Garden* (Tony Award),* Getting Out*,* Trudy Blue*,* Last Dance*…

Melanie Marnich:* Cradle of Man, Tallgrass Gothic, Blur, Quake, The Sparrow
Project…*

Mark Bly: *Senior Dramaturg, Arena Stage*

Cathy Norgren: *Associate Director of the Playwriting Intensive, Costume
Designer: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, The Kennedy
Center...*

Dael Orlandersmith:* Yellowman, The Gimmick, Beauty's Daughter, Monster*

Howard Shalwitz: *Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company*

Steven Dietz:* God's Country, Lonely Planet, Private Eyes, Fiction,
Inventing Van Gogh…*

Lee Blessing: *Going to St. Ives, Eleemosynary, A Walk in the Woods,
Fortinbras, A Body of Water, The Scottish Play...*

Caleen Sinnette Jennings:* Classyass, Inns and Outs, Rainy Season, Casting
Othello-Playing Juliet*

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa:* Based on a Totally True Story, The Mystery Plays,
Velvet Sky, Rough Magic, The Muckle Man*, writer for Marvel Comics'* The
Fantastic Four *and* Spider Man*

Heather McDonald:* An Almost Holy Picture, Faulkner's Bicycle, The End of
the Affair*(Opera with Jake Heggie)…

Karen Zacarias: *The Sins of Sor Juana, Mariela in the Desert, The Book Club
Play, Einstein is a Dummy*
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