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Liz Duffy Adams - Short Plays Hot & Fast
Straight from New York, and author of Or and Dog Act, Liz Duffy Adams returns to the New Play Institute!
A great way to write quickly, intensely and surprise yourself, short plays are also handy to have in-hand for festivals and anthologies. Even better, they can be sketches for more complex ideas and full-length plays (Adams' luminous Or, and The Listener both began that way). In this 6-session 18-hour course, you will write no less than three short plays (honestly), and you'll pick one to explore in rewriting. The final class will be a workshop of your play with professional actors.
If you're having trouble starting a new play, if you're craving that satisfying feeling of finishing a draft, if you tend to get mired in over-thinking and want to get out of your own way, if you want to explore multiple ideas and approaches rapid-fire in a supportive energized room full of writers join us for this workshop.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Liz Duffy Adams' most recent play Or, premiered Off Broadway at the Julia Miles Theater in 2009, and had its West Coast premiere at the Magic Theater in San Francisco in 2010. Other plays include Dog Act; Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitude; The Listener; The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It or, The Train Play; and One Big Lie. She received a Lillian Hellman <http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lillian_Hellman/> Award for Playwriting in 2010, the Lilly's inaugural year, for both Or, and Dog Act. Other honors include: New Dramatists residency (20012008), New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Will Glickman Award (for Dog Act), Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, and a commission from Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis. Her work has been produced or developed at the Humana Festival, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Stage, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, New Georges, Shotgun Players, MOXIE Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, and Crowded Fire among others. Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," Or, in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays Of 2010," numerous short works in anthologies from Smith & Kraus and Heinemann, and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. She was profiled in American Theater magazine (December 2004) and has been in residency at the MacDowell, Djerassi, and Millay artist colonies. BFA: New York University's Experimental Theater Wing; MFA: Yale School of Drama. She has taught playwriting at Mt Holyoke College, New Dramatists Teaching Collective, and many times at Playwrights Foundation.
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LocationPlaywrights Foundation
1616 16th Street, Ste 350
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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