An online Dramatis Personae playwriting workshop focused on writing ten-minute plays.
Wrighting Plays: Strategies for Revising Scripts
Price range: $15.00 through $35.00
Description
A Dramatis Personae Workshop with Ramón Esquivel
Monday, March 30th, 7:00 -8:30 PM CST
Admission: $15-$35
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The heart of playwriting is the revising process, when a playwright works and reworks dialogue, stage directions, and beats to refine and sharpen moments of drama. Yet most writing workshops and books focus only on generating story ideas and writing a first draft, leaving writers on their own for the most important, and enjoyable, part of creating new work. In this workshop for writers of all experience levels, playwright Ramón Esquivel will share his strategies and approaches for revising plays for second and third drafts and beyond. How do we distinguish characters and their dialogue? How can structure help us problem solve? When do we break from structure? How and why do we edit and cut? To practice these strategies, workshop participants are encouraged to bring a few pages of dialogue from their own works in progress, or they can work from some sample dialogues that will be provided.
ABOUT RAMÓN ESQUIVEL
Ramón Esquivel is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and educator. Originally from Seattle and now based on the Central Coast of California, Ramón has built strong connections with Texas theatres, schools, and arts organizations. His plays that have been produced or shared in Texas include Dulce at Scottish Rite Theatre and the Austin Latinx New Play Festival (Teatro Vivo), Luna at ZACH Theatre and the University of Texas at Austin, The Hero Twins: Blood Race at UT and Magik Theatre in San Antonio, ZEQ at the Austin Latinx New Play Festival, and The Hummingbird’s Wedding and 2000 Miles at Life Is Shorts / La Vida Es Cortos Festival at TEATRX in Houston. Ramón recently completed a playwright-in-residency at Marfa High School through Marfa Live Arts. Recent works include Show Me the Gates of Heaven, commissioned by Thrown Stone Theatre (Connecticut); Fallenstar: The Watchoverers, commissioned and produced by New Native Theatre (Minnesota); The Girl Who Talks to Spiders, commissioned by University of Central Florida and Orlando Repertory Theatre; Watching for Sasquatch: An Environmental Play of Plays, created through a research grant from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo; and ¡O Cascadia!, which was developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Writers Group. Ramón’s plays are available through Dramatic Publishing, including in the anthologies, Palabras del Cielo: An Exploration of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, Pieces of Mind: Ten Plays About Mental Health for Teens; I Have a Story: Plays from an Extraordinary Year; and New Visions/New Voices: 25 Years/25 Plays at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre, Playwriting at Cal Poly. MFA Creative Writing, University of Texas at Austin; MA Educational Theatre for Colleges & Communities, New York University; BA History, Yale University.
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