TOWN HALL & DGF TRAVELING MASTERS EVENTS
The Guild's Kansas City Regional Rep, Hartley Wright, will be hosting events next week for the Kansas City DG membership. These events are open to playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists who are members of the Guild or are considering becoming members of the Guild. We welcome dramatists from Missouri, Kansas, Southeastern Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa.
Topics of discussion will include information regarding The DG Institute, The Count, updates from the Guild and future regional programming such as "Crowding at the Crossroads" and "Perambulate Playwrights."
April 17, 2016, 6PM
Olson Performing Arts Center - Room 116
4949 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO
After the conclusion of the Town Hall Meeting, the Dramatists Guild Fund presents "
The World of a Play, Q&A with Lauren Yee" at 7:30 PM as part of the Traveling Masters Program. New York-based playwright Lauren Yee will discuss issues relating to building a career as a playwright, what is involved in the playwright-director relationship, and how to build connections with theaters. Also, we will explore what playwrights can do to strengthen the American theater scene. How do we create theater that looks like America today? What steps can we take to foster healthy, diverse theater communities and how do we connect with like-minded theater towns across the country?
For more information about Lauren Yee and DGF's Traveling Masters Program, click here
http://dgfund.org/newsitems/traveling-master-lauren-yee-visits-kansas-city-this-weekend/.
The following evening, DGF invites playwrights to participate in Lauren Yee's playwriting workshop, free of charge at: Playwriting with Lauren Yee.
April 18, 2016, 7PM
Fishtank Performance Studio - The Aquarium
1715 Wyandotte St
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Registration and more information via the Eventbrite link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playwriting-with-lauren-yee-tickets-24034210972. Please note seating is limited.
Please email
[email protected] to reserve your place at the Town Hall Meeting.
A SHAKE 38 TOWN HALL
Guild Members and playwrights from the St. Louis region are invited to join Regional Rep Hartley Wright and other Guild members at the Shake 38 production of
Cymbeline. This rarely performed Shakespeare text will be workshop directed by NYC Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons founder, Bob Moss.
A Town Hall will take place immediately following the completion of
Cymbeline. We will discuss the Dramatists Guild Institute, updates from the Guild, future programming, and the "Perambulate Playwrights" opportunities.
This meeting is open to playwrights, lyricists and composers who are members of the Guild or considering becoming members of the Guild. We welcome dramatists from the region of St Louis and those living in Southwest Illinois.
Please come if you can, and feel free to bring someone you think could benefit from being a member of the Guild. Reservations are not required.
April 19, 2016, 7PM
Tesseract Theatre at the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis
6128 Delmar Blvd
St Louis, MO
There is street parking on Delmar (metered, but free after 7pm), parking adjacent to The Pageant building and in the Metro lot behind The Pageant.
A SWEET CONVERSATION WITH JEFFREY
The Dramatists Guild will host an evening with award-winning playwright, theatre historian, Emmy-nominee and member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild, Jeffrey Sweet.
Please join us for a town hall conversation with Mr. Sweet about his work, his career as a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, critic, journalist, teacher, theatre historian and sometime songwriter and director, the issues facing playwrights today, and his work with the Dramatists Guild Council.
The event will last 90 minutes, and a brief reception will follow.
April 23, 2016, 7PM
Midwest Dramatists Center
3607 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, MO
Reservations are not required for this event. Space is limited. Please contact
[email protected] if you have questions.
Hartley Wright
Kansas City/St. Louis Regional Rep
