Voice & Vision continues its series of playwriting workshops for women with this exciting class by master teacher Saviana Stanescu!
Think. Play. Write.
Saviana has designed a two-weekend course that nurtures the unique voice of the writer, strengthening your strengths and weakening your weaknesses through playful writing exercises and customized feedback.
Think. Play. Write. will lead you to the completion of a 10-minute play, the great beginning of a full-length - or, who knows, maybe you will write a masterpiece in those two weekends. We are open to genius!
Workshop Details:
Two weekends
April 30 and May 1
May 7 and 8
2:00 - 6:00
Classes take place at the Women's Project rehearsal room
55 West End Ave (entrance on 62nd St)
Cost: $375
Space is limited to 10 students. The class will be filled on a first-come basis.
Some financial aid is available.
Email rhayes@vandv.org to register for this exciting workshop!
Think. Play. Write. will lead you to the completion of a 10-minute play, the great beginning of a full-length - or, who knows, maybe you will write a masterpiece in those two weekends. We are open to genius!
Workshop Details:
Two weekends
April 30 and May 1
May 7 and 8
2:00 - 6:00
Classes take place at the Women's Project rehearsal room
55 West End Ave (entrance on 62nd St)
Cost: $375
Space is limited to 10 students. The class will be filled on a first-come basis.
Some financial aid is available.
Email rhayes@vandv.org to register for this exciting workshop!
About the teacher:
SAVIANA STANESCU is a Romanian-born multi-award-winning playwright. New York productions include Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women's Project), Polanski Polanski (HERE Arts Center), Waxing West (winner of 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script), and YokastaS Redux (La MaMa E.T.C.). Recent international productions include Inmigrantes con Habilidades Extraordinarias and Cuenta Regresiva (Mexico City), White Embers (Stockholm). The Inflatable Apocalypse won the Best Play of the Year UNITER Award in 2000, Bucharest Underground won the Marulic Prize for Best European Radio-Drama in 2007. In the USA her plays plays have been published mainly by Samuel French.
Saviana holds an MA in Performance Studies (Fulbright fellow) and an MFA in Dramatic Writing (John Golden Award for excellence in Playwriting) from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of EST, a Usual Suspect of New York Theatre Workshop, a former NYSCA playwright-in-residence with Women's Project, and is with Richard Schechner's East Coast Artists. She has been a visiting instructor at Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Fordham University, Helenico Institute in Mexico City, Dramalabbet in Stockholm, Desant Bucharest, and the Lark Transylvania Camp. She currently teaches in the Drama Deparment at New York University's Tisch School of The Arts.
www.saviana.com
Saviana holds an MA in Performance Studies (Fulbright fellow) and an MFA in Dramatic Writing (John Golden Award for excellence in Playwriting) from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of EST, a Usual Suspect of New York Theatre Workshop, a former NYSCA playwright-in-residence with Women's Project, and is with Richard Schechner's East Coast Artists. She has been a visiting instructor at Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Fordham University, Helenico Institute in Mexico City, Dramalabbet in Stockholm, Desant Bucharest, and the Lark Transylvania Camp. She currently teaches in the Drama Deparment at New York University's Tisch School of The Arts.
www.saviana.com
