Playwriting I: Exploring the Craft with Elizabeth HeffronTheatre tells stories using actors, with powerful objectives, living at specific moments in time. Explore the many ways playwrights create interesting, truthful characters and dynamic stories using the language of the stage: words: movement, light, sound, and silence. This interactive class includes both sit-down writing exercises, and up-on-your-feet work, so please dress comfortably.
Octover 4 - November 22
Tuesdays, 6:30pm-9:30pm
$340 Discounted
$390 Full Price
5% early bird registration discount ends Friday, September 2 (5% discount is not included in the discounted price above)
To register or for more information: https://www.freeholdtheatre.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=56&noFullMsg=truePrevious Playwriting I students noted:
"Elizabeth is lovely, her enthusiasm and professionalism and professional tips were all well worth the class fee. Thank you!"
and
"Have thoroughly enjoyed this class. Elizabeth is a fantastic teacher. She's supportive and very helpful. Her critique is perceptive. Have never taken playwriting before and this was the perfect introduction."
Elizabeth Heffron's plays include Mitzi's Abortion, which won the 2005 ACT Theatre New Play Award and was produced by ACT in July, 2006, and New Patagonia, produced by the Seattle Repertory Theatre and selected for the 'Alternative Reading Series' at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. Her work has also been seen locally at Annex Theatre, 14/48 Festival, New City Theatre, and Freehold Theatre, where she's finished a second season working with Robin Lynn Smith and the inmates of the Washington Correctional Center for Women. Her other plays and solo performance pieces include An Altered Life, The Main Room, Babies, Broads, and Bread, Moses Lake and Morphometrics, and have been staged in Seattle, Vancouver BC, San Francisco, St. Louis, and New York. She teaches playwriting in the schools through ACT's Young Playwrights Program, and is the recipient of several grants from the Seattle Arts Commission, as well as a Playwriting Fellowship from Artist Trust and the Washington State Arts Commission.
If you're looking for outstanding training in a supportive atmosphere, Freehold is the place.
Freehold Theatre Lab/Studio
2222 2nd Avenue, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 323-7499
