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2024 Playwriting Lab
Facilitated by Guillermo Verdecchia
Dates: July 4 – 13, 2024
The craft of writing is a lifelong exercise in learning. That’s why Sage Hill’s Summer Courses – Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Playwriting and Emerging Writers’ – are designed as a forum for writers at all stages of their careers to focus on developing their skills, exchanging ideas and learning from both mentors and peers. Bring your new or ongoing writing project to these small-group facilitated retreats, where you will take the next step in your process supported by a vibrant community of writers.
Playwriting Lab - Shaping Your Play: Crafting Dramatic Moments
A facilitated, in person course for eight playwrights who wish to further develop their playwriting skills and may have had works produced. You do not need to be published to attend. The course will focus on works in progress and will combine group discussion, writing time, and individual critiques. Instruction occurs within a deep-immersion setting over 10 days. Application is open to writers 19 years of age and older from Canada and abroad.
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama and fiction as well as a director, dramaturge, translator, and actor. He is the recipient of a Governor-General’s Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work, which includes The Art of Building a Bunker (with Adam Lazarus), the Governor-General shortlisted Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Daniel Brooks), the Seattle Times’ Footlight Award-winning Adventures of Ali & Ali (with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai), A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), bloom, and Another Country has been recorded, anthologized, translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Find course details & sign up at: https://sagehillwriting.ca/writing-retreats/summer-courses/playwriting/