Writing and Creating Inter-Disciplinary Plays with Kevin Doyle will teach a unique form of inter-disciplinary theater, one that privileges the writer's voice in the creation of multi-dimensional, inter-disciplinary theatrical works. This class stretches the capacity of a writer to utilize muscular, theatrical language, in combination with the language of film, video, and abstract notions of composition, to create new work. This class is also ideal for actors and/or directors and filmmakers interested in exposing themselves to more experimental approaches to playwriting.
Class runs on Saturday early afternoons 10am-1pm, September 20, and ends on October 11, 2014.
Early Bird Pricing at $200 is available until September 12
Writing the Impermissible with Cheryldee Huddleston is a 10-session course that will take students and their characters through exercises inspired by Michael Chekov's Psychological Gesture. Students can expect to take a deep look into the mind of their characters and embrace the seemingly impermissible. Students will embrace a writing practice that accesses intuitive, dramaturgical and practical techniques to write and complete your play.
Class runs on Tuesday Evenings 7-10pm, September 30 through December 16
Early Bird Pricing at $385 is available until September 12
"These artists return again and again to teach in our New Play Institute because their students clamor for more," says Amy Mueller, Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation. "Studying with a master writer - at any level, can help writers kick-start their imaginations, as well as learn a new process for developing a work."
About the Instructors: Kevin Doyle, has emerged as one of New York's absurdist 'geniuses' according to NYTHEATRE Magazine. He is known in the Bay Area for his powerful and mesmerizing short play Compression of a Casualty produced by Golden Thread Productions in the ReOrient Festival, and has landed in the Bay Area temporarily enroute to Finland for the prestigious Kone Foundation Fellowship.
According to NYTHEATRE magazine, "The word 'genius' actually danced through my mind, the object of that notion being writer/director Kevin Doyle, the guiding spirit of this remarkable work of theatre, a talented theatre artist who seems to make more exciting and inspired choices with each successive play."
Cheryldee Huddleston's play, Who Loves You, Jimmie Orrio? won the 2002 PEN USA Award for Drama and is published by Dramatic Publishing. Her new play, Buffalo Bones [or Light Up The Night: A Silent Movie] was recently read as part of the SF Dramatists Guild Footlights Series. Cheryldee's background in acting inspired her to adapt and use Chekhov's principles in her own playwriting process, which has become an exciting tool of her instruction. She returned to the Bay Area after receiving her Ph.D. in Theatre and teaching playwriting for six years at the University of Georgia. Her play, Children of an Idol Moon was produced at the University of Georgia, and her work has been produced off Broadway, in Los Angeles, North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon. Her residencies include Hawthornden International Writers Retreat in Scotland, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The New Globe in London, Z Space Studio in San Francisco, Wordbridge Playwrights Conference in Florida, and Brava! Women in the Arts. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Of Cheryldee Huddleston's teaching style, student Ann Eisenberg " Cheryldee helped me access very elusive, subconscious material. The character I was most unsure about became alive on the page!"
About the NPI: Nationally acclaimed playwrights and master theater artists offer their experience in intimate classes and workshops at the Institute. PF's Institute is proud to aid students of all levels in rigorously developing their art, to provide a diverse field of teachers and classes, and to provide scholarships to those with low-income. The Institute is a community where both budding and experienced writers can learn from and with each other, laying the foundations for the future of theater.
About Playwrights Foundation: Playwrights Foundation is dedicated to discovering and supporting local and national playwrights across a broad spectrum of artistic and career positions, in the inception and development of new plays that speak to and from an increasingly diverse society. Founded on a deeply held belief that the relevance and vitality of American theater depends upon a continual infusion of new work, Playwrights Foundation sustains a commitment to the playwright, who we regard as the creative wellspring of theater.
For more information about PF, visit: http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org
For more information and to register for Kevin Doyle's class visit: http://playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=351
For more information and to register about Cheryldee Huddleston's class visit: http://playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=350
Or call Magan Biggs, 415-626-2176.
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