Renowned playwright and educator Gary Garrison will teach two playwriting classes in Houston, on Saturday March 4 to launch the "Playwright and the Process" month-long series of playwriting events at Queensbury Theatre.
Gary will teach "The Ten-Minute Play" at 10am, and "Writing Comedy" at 2pm. Dramatists Guild members will be admitted free of charge. The cost for non-members is $50 per class, or $75 to attend both classes.
The Dramatists Guild will host a lunch reception at noon for DG members and for any of their friends interested in joining the Guild, as well as for class attendees. The DG Houston regional rep will be on hand to answer any questions about the Dramatists Guild.
Gary Garrison
is the Director of the Dramatists Guild Institute. For the last decade, he served as the Co-Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild of America (alongside Ralph Sevush). Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and full-time faculty member in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for 30 years, where he produced over 45 different festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Garrison's plays include
Ties That Bind
,
Skirting the Issue
,
Caught Without Candy
,
Game On
,
The Sweep
,
Verticals and Horizontals
,
Storm on Storm
,
Crater
,
Old Soles
,
Padding The Wagon
,
Rug Store Cowboy
,
Cherry Reds
,
Gawk
,
Oh Messiah Me
,
We Make A Wall
,
The Big Fat Naked Truth
,
Scream With Laughter
, S
moothness With Cool
,
Empty Rooms
,
Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou
?, and
When A Diva Dreams
. This work has been featured at the City Theatre of Miami, Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Open Door Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer's Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, CityWrights, The Inkwell and Source Theatre in D.C., Baltimore Playwrights Festival, New Hampshire Playwrights Festival, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Southeast Theatre Conference, Northwest Theatre Conference and Boston Playwrights. He is the author of the critically acclaimed
The Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life
,
Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play
,
A More Perfect Ten
and two volumes of
Monologues for Men by Men
. He is on the Tony Administration Committee for the Tony Awards and the program director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center. A collection of short plays,
Verticals and Horizontals
, was published last spring by Original Play Publishers in Los Angeles. In April of 2014, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts instituted the National Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award given to the best ten-minute play written by a dramatist.
Saturday, March 4
10am - 4pm
Queensbury Theatre
12777 Queensbury Lane
Houston, TX 77024
