This Fall workshop will focus on the creation of one-woman plays and performance works.  Headed by acclaimed writer/performer Dael Orlanderwmith, this 8-week course will focus on exploring dramatic structures for solo performers, and the creation of new work.  Both a traditional play structure and alternative performance structures will be examined and explored in both writing and performance-based sessions.

Participants should have some previous acting and writing experience.  Class size will be small, and open only to women.

Mondays, beginning Oct 8th, 630-930pm, location TBD in Manhattan.
Tuition: $450

Please contact Amanda Cooper for more information: acooperATvandvDOTorg, or 212 268 3717

Dael Orlandersmith is an OBIE Award winning writer and performer (Beauty’s Daughter), a Pulitzer Prize finalist (Yellowman), and the recipient of over a dozen awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Laura Pels award, and in 2007 a Lucille Lortel.  Dael has had numerous solo and multiple-actor plays receive Off Broadway and regional productions. As a poet/performer, Dael has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café throughout the US, Europe and Australia.  Over half a dozen of her plays have been published, including publications of some collected works.  Dael is currently working on a play called Bones for the Mark Taper Forum.