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Playwriting Circles (Calgary & Edmonton):
Next Edmonton Circle
Feb 15 to April 12, 2010
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Next Calgary Circle
Mar 3 to April 28, 2010
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Are you struggling to complete that next play (or even that first play)? Are you seeking constructive feedback and criticism? Would you benefit from the support and encouragement of your peers? Perhaps a Playwriting Circle, run by APN, is what you're looking for.
Each Playwriting Circle runs one night a week for 8 weeks. You bring the piece you're currently working on, or would like to start working on. You set your own goals for the process. Guided by experienced playwrights Gordon Pengilly in Calgary and Conni Massing in Edmonton, APN's Playwriting Circles will help you to focus your work and move forward with it, working with a small group of your peers.
Cost: $200 (plus cost of membership for non-members)
Locations: TBA
For more information or to register in an upcoming playwriting circle, contact Johanne Deleeuw at johanne@albertaplaywrights.com or call (403) 269-8564 or toll-free 1-800-268-8564.
Gordon Pengilly: An award-winning playwright, Gordon Pengilly has written more than fifty plays for television, film, radio and stage. His plays, including Seeds, Swipe, Metastasis, Contraption and They Don't Call Them Farmers Anymore, have been produced across Canada and elsewhere and he has also been resident playwright for theatres and institutions across the country. His screenplay Drumheller Or Dangerous Times won the 2003 Writer's Guild of Canada Jim Burt Prize for screenwriting. His one-act play The Work Play, which premiered in New York in 2000, then in Japan in 2002, was recently made into a short film in Los Angeles. Gordon is also one of the most prolific radio dramatists in Canada.
Conni Massing: Conni is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film, radio, and television. Recent stage credits include the hit comedy The Myth of Summer (ATP), and Homesick (Workshop West Theatre), both published by Playwrights Canada Press. She is currently adapting W.O. Mitchell's Jake and the Kid for Theatre Calgary. Massing has been Playwright-in-Residence at theatres across Canada and she teaches playwriting and screenwriting in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. Conni's work has received AMPIA, Academy of Cinema and Television, Betty Mitchell, and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards as well as a Queen's Jubilee Medal (for contributions to the arts) and she was featured in APN's recent book Theatre 100.
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