The Playwrights Gymnasium, a process-oriented playwrights workshop in Washington, D.C., now in its sixth year, is expanding its offerings and accepting new members for the 2011-12 sessions.
The focus of the gym is the development of craft through monthly mini-workshops. Members receive monthly writing prompts, exercises, or other assignments that address issues such as characterization, writing more effective dialogue, structure, or other means of exploring their scripts. We believe that the insights we gain in the gym strengthen our skills outside of it, but many of these assignments also trigger new work, and some of our members have won national competitions with plays that began in the gym.
In the past, the group has met the first Sunday of the month at Flashpoint, 940 G St. N.W. Because of demand, we are organizing a second session, meeting time to be determined based on the needs of the new members.
For more details about us, our process, and our fee structure, check out our website or send us an e-mail.
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Who Are We?
The Playwright's Gymnasium is a group of playwrights in the Washington DC/Baltimore area who meet on a monthly basis to explore their writing process through the use of facilitated exercises. Inspired by the writings of Michael Wright (Playwriting in Process), we believe that any writer, of any level of experience, can benefit from stepping away from the work to examine the way that he or she works. Through exercises that isolate a specific element of dramatic writing, such as characterization, plotting, or structure, we gain insights into our work and our process that we apply to our writing generally.
Our members have worked professionally in Washington, all over the US, and around the world, with productions, readings, and workshops at Imagination Stage, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, The New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theatre, the Capital Fringe Festival, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the Dayton FutureFest, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway New Play Festival and others.
For more information, visit our website.
Our members have worked professionally in Washington, all over the US, and around the world, with productions, readings, and workshops at Imagination Stage, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, The New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theatre, the Capital Fringe Festival, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the Dayton FutureFest, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway New Play Festival and others.
For more information, visit our website.