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eSe Taller/ eSe Workshop: Playwrighting by award-winning author Enrique Urueta

A Two-Day Workshop: Thursday, May 8, 7:00pm-10:00pm & Saturday, May 10, 4:00pm-7:00pm

Whether you're working on rewrites of an existing play or eager to start something new, these workshops will open your mind to the possibilities of the stage and give you the tools to capture your imagination on the page. These workshops are great for creating new work or revising. Bring a play you're in process with or one you're revising to refer to during the workshops.

Day 1: Causing A Spectacle

A play is ultimately a visual and sensory narrative experience, but just because you're not directing or designing your play doesn't mean you should ignore the visual elements of your writing. This workshop will focus on visual strategies and using music for the creation of new work and enhancing the theatricality of your plays.

Day 2: Waxing Poetic--Using Aristotle's Poetics For Writing And Revising Your Work

Whether you're writing realism or pushing the boundaries of the avant garde, Aristotle's treatise on drama, The Poetics, is a useful resource for writing and revising your work. This workshop will give you an overview of Aristotle's 6 elements of drama and useful writing exercises inspired by each of them that will help you dive deeper into the plays you revise and the new worlds you create.

ABOUT ENRIQUE URUETA
Based in New York, Enrique Urueta's plays include The Johnson Administration, The Danger of Bleeding Brown, Learn To Be Latina, and Forever Never Comes. He has received a Jerome Fellowship, was a Walter Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference, and was an NEA Fellow at The MacDowell Colony. He received the New Works Fund award for Forever Never Comes from Theatre Bay Area and was a runner-up for the 2009 Yale Drama Series prize for The Danger of Bleeding Brown. Learn To Be Latina won the inaugural Great Gay Play contest sponsored by Pride Films & Plays and was named Best Ensemble Comedy of 2010 by the SF Weekly, which also named him Best Up-And-Coming Playwright of 2010. MFA Brown. His play, Learn to be Latina, will open at Milagro Theatre in Portland, Oregon May 1.