WHO: Austin Shakespeare
WHAT: Four-week playwriting workshop
WHERE: Online via Zoom. Login available by emailing info@AustinShakespeare.org
WHEN: Wednesdays at 7 p.m. beginning Feb. 3, 2021
Austin, TX – Austin Shakespeare continues its series of successful playwriting classes with a new four-week online workshop beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3. Class registration is available by emailing info@austinshakespeare.org.
The workshop is led by Artistic ... view more »
WHO: Austin Shakespeare
WHAT: Four-week playwriting workshop
WHERE: Online via Zoom. Login available by emailing info@AustinShakespeare.org
WHEN: Wednesdays at 7 p.m. beginning Feb. 3, 2021
Austin, TX – Austin Shakespeare continues its series of successful playwriting classes with a new four-week online workshop beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3. Class registration is available by emailing info@austinshakespeare.org.
The workshop is led by Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella and culminates in an online showcase featuring professional actors performing dialogue from the scenes created by the participating playwrights. “This workshop series encourages new writing as well as revising past work; it focuses on building conflict between characters at the core of dialogue,” Ciccolella said. “We refer to plays ranging from Stoppard to Shakespeare.”
There is no experience necessary before enrolling in the class. “Participants have ranged from experienced playwrights to newcomers,” Ciccolella said. “All of them have learned from each other as well as from studying the work of master playwrights.”
ABOUT ANN CICCOLELLA: As a playwright, Ann Ciccolella had full productions of her scripts, Madame X, and Fruits and Vegetables from Austin’s Different Stages, and recently her adaptation of The Odyssey at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater. She has adapted and staged Anton Checkov’s The Seagull, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda, and is currently writing a version of Maurice Maeterlinck’s Monna Vanna to be performed in August 2021. A graduate of NYU’s program in Dramatic Literature, and History of Theater, Ann has taught at the Department of Theater and Dance, UT Austin and St Edwards University.
ABOUT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE: “The Bard is only the beginning.” Audiences travel many roads with this professional company for surprising and entertaining theater productions featuring heightened language at The Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre in the fall and spring, as well as Free Summer Shakespeare in Zilker Park and Young Shakespeare at the Curtain Theater replica. Founded in 1984 and the only professional classical theater company in Central Texas, Austin Shakespeare stages performances that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking and eminently accessible — connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today. #ATXTheatre
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