September 5, 2010
Saviana Stanescu, published in Plays and Playwrights 2006, sent the following about two courses she is teaching this fall at ESPA – Primary Stages (Einhorn School for Performing Arts).
Mondays 2-5 pm: Experimental Theatre (playwriting)
Fridays 11- 2 pm: Docudrama (playwriting)
The participants will complete a super-text plus they get a foot in the door at Primary Stages (there will be a reading presentation of the work written in my classes in December and other opportunities to follow).
I hope great people will join me in this exciting adventure!
Enroll Today!
Call - 212.840.9705
Email – espa@primarystages.org
All classes are held at Primary Stages Studios
307 West 38th Street. NYC 10018
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July 28, 2010
In Plays and Playwrights 2008 we published Daniel Talbott’s play, What Happened When. In the same book we published two other plays directed by Daniel. These two plays are site specific.
Crystal Skillman’s, The Telling Trilogy, was specifically written and directed to be produced at Seventh Street Small Stage — a long room behind a bar/restaurant. The audience sits around the side of the room with the action going on next to them, around them and in front of them.
Daniel Reitz’s, Fall Forward, was originally staged at a Methodist Church just a few blocks from the World Trade Center. Here the audience congregates in the courtyard joined by one of the actors. They are then led into the church, seated on benches and the action takes place in the pews facing them.
Both of these are examples of many of the innovative site specific productions that Daniel stages and directs. And this summer he is teaching a class at Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts to a group of young directors. Wanting to learn more about the class, the topic and what these directors think about the process, we invited Daniel to record a podcast with six of his students. Tune in – it’s a chance to listen to the teacher and the students, all with slightly different thoughts.
And Daniel is also directing a new show Keep Your Baggage With You (At All Times) as part of the Dream Works Festival. It begins performances August 6.
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July 6, 2010
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is now accepting applications for its first year composer/lyricist class. The August 1, 2010 deadline is quickly approaching and applicants are asked to send in the requested materials as soon as possible. The Workshop begins September 21, 2010 and runs through June 2011. Workshop participants will pay $27 for an identification badge, but all other sponsorship costs are fully covered by BMI. The purpose of the Workshop is to bring writers together to work under the guidance and supervision of experienced professionals in order to develop new creative talent in American musical theatre.
Applications for the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop can be downloaded at http://e2ma.net/go/8428214262/2928809/96244481/3825/goto:http:/www.bmi.com/genres/entry/534241, or requested by emailing theatre@bmi.com. Applications should include: Composer: Three (3) contrasting compositions on CD, up-tempo, comedy song, ballad. Please include copy of score that includes lyrics.
Lyricist: Three (3) contrasting lyrics – up-tempo, comedy song, ballad.
Composer/Lyricist: Three (3) contrasting songs on CD – up-tempo, comedy song, ballad. Please include copy of score that includes lyrics.
Please send completed applications to:
Jean Banks BMI – 250 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007-0030
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May 4, 2010
This item from Jamil Walker, BMI
BMI has announced that the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop is now accepting applications for membership. This unique writing program is dedicated to the development and discovery of bookwriters for the musical theatre. The deadline for applicants is May 15. The application can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/dwmeZd .
The Workshop’s goal is to clarify the special techniques of writing for the musical stage. BMI fully sponsors the Workshop; there is no cost to participating writers. Most members of the Librettists Workshop are accomplished playwrights, but some join the Workshop after experience in screenwriting, journalism, or other literary disciplines. The Workshop has become a springboard for new works, a resource for new collaborations, and a talent pool known throughout the theatrical industry.
Broadway Literary Manager and scriptwriter Nancy Golladay serves as Librettist Workshop Moderator. Members meet weekly to present work in progress and to participate in peer discussion. Golladay has also created a number of innovative programs where Librettist members work on short-term projects with members of BMI’s songwriting workshops to promote collaboration and networking among the groups. Occasional guest lecturers visit the Workshop to discuss other aspects of the theatre business. Participants learn musical theatre skills both through moderated critiques and from the examples shown by the group’s senior members.
To apply to the Librettists Workshop, writers must submit samples of their work with a résumé and completed application form by May 15. In addition to bmi.com, application forms and information may be obtained by contacting:
Jean Banks, Senior Director, Musical Theatre, BMI
320 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
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April 29, 2010
Daniel Talbott (PP’08) will be teaching at Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) this summer. He tells us he will be teaching a site-specific directing class and also a “facing the blank page” playwriting class.
ESPA will offer new classes in filmmaking, improvisation, voiceover, yoga and pilates for actors, and special guest instructors Neil LaBute and Keira Naughton join returning faculty members Karen Braga, Mark Blum, Denny Dillon and Linda & David Laundra.
Acting, writing and directing students work closely with one another and with theater professionals. This unique platform provides students the ability to build strong relationships among each other, within the New York theater community, and beyond.
Each semester culminates with the ESPA Student Playwrights Festival, a two-week invited reading series of student playwrights’ work, presented by student actors. Students also enjoy extensive opportunities such as “Jam Sessions,” in which students are provided space to workshop new material, theater tickets, work-study, and access to the inner workings of a professional, off-Broadway theater company.
Information is available by contacting Director of ESPA Tessa LaNeve at (212) 840-9705 x212, via email at tessa@primarystages.org, or by visiting the Primary Stages ESPA website.
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