Early Registration Cost: $350   - Deposit received by February 24, 2012*
Regular Registration Cost:  $400  - Deposit received after February 24, 2012* 
ACT Member Price: $325
*A non-refundable deposit of $75 guarantees your spot in the course. Full payment for the APP is due March 6, 2012.

APP INTRO TO PLAYWRITING Maximum Enrollment: 15
APP INTERMEDIATE PLAYWRITING Maximum Enrollment: 8

You can sign up online by selecting the correct date and time (it will enroll you in the entire course) or by calling the Ticket Office at (206) 292-7676.  

APP INTRO TO PLAYWRITING

If you have ever wanted to learn the art of playwriting and have the support to grow your ideas, here is your chance!  Intro to Playwriting is for beginners or any playwright who wants to revisit the basics. This fun interactive course will explore character development, dialogue, conflict in action and more. Every participant will write scenes under the guidance of local playwrights and YPP teaching artists, Kristina Sutherland and Emily Conbere. The class will conclude with a showcase student work; professional actors will read from selected scenes at a public event at ACT!  

Class Dates:  Sundays, March 4 - April 15, 2012,12:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Showcase of student work performed by professional actors April 20, 2012.                                                            
All classes and showcase at ACT, 700 Union Street, Seattle, WA 98101

Early Registration Cost: $350   - Deposit received by February 24, 2012*
Regular Registration Cost:  $400  - Deposit received after February 24, 2012* 
ACT Member Price: $325
*A non-refundable deposit of $75 guarantees your spot in the course. Full payment for the APP is due March 6, 2012.

Maximum Enrollment: 15

APP INTERMEDIATE PLAYWRITING: The House that Jack Built - explorations and experiments in play structure

You’ve got your story: the once upon a time through the happily ever after.  Now it’s time to think of how you want that tale to unfold.  Maybe your story could start through the front door, and end at the back door.  But maybe you want to start it at the back door, or have it all take place in the kitchen, or through the looking glass, for that matter.  Play structure is not one size fits all.  A particular play structure can serve to emphasize and augment different aspects of your play, whether story driven, theme driven, character driven, or something else.

The primary focus of the class will be advancing your current project through sharing and discussion of scenes from your work in progress.  In addition, through selected readings and focused writing exercises, we’ll tour a variety of existing play structures, as well as trying to find the structure that best houses the story you are telling.

This intermediate class is the perfect opportunity to make headway on that play in progress, or jump into writing your next one. 

Class Dates:  Sundays, March 4 – April 15, 2012,10:00 a.m – noon or Mondays, March 5 - April 16, 2012, 7:00 p.m - 9:00 p.m.
Showcase of student work performed by professional actors April 19th.
All classes and showcase at ACT, 700 Union Street, Seattle, WA 98101

Early Registration Cost: $350   - Deposit received by February 24th, 2012*
Regular Registration Cost:  $400  - Deposit received after February 24, 2012* 
ACT Member Price: $325
*A non-refundable deposit of $75 guarantees your spot in the course. Full payment for this APP class is due March 6, 2012.

Kristina Sutherland is the Director of Education at ACT and the co-founder and Artistic Director of Macha Monkey Productions. She is the author of several plays most recently THEBES and the co-creator of four plays with Desiree Prewitt: Nancy, Frank, and Joe (nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association Award 2009 and a Gregory Award for playwriting in 2010) The Cowgirl Play, R (The Swashbuckling Tale of Anne Bonny and Mary Read) and Live Girls Do Elektra. These works have been produced in Seattle, across Canada in numerous fringe theatre festivals, and in Albuquerque’s Revolutions Festival.

Emily Conbere has been a playwright in residence with Youngblood at EST, East River Commedia, Mabou Mines Theater, and ALT Opera in New York.  Emily has had opera productions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Symphony Space and PS122 in NY.  Her plays and musicals have been produced at PS122, Ensemble Studio Theater, Collective Unconscious, and other NY venues; as well as The Southern Theater (MN) and Williamstown Summer Theater. Emily's play The Scholar was presented at the State Theater of Bielefeld in Germany and published with S. Fischer Verlag in 2008. Emily was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2008 and for the Creative Capital Grant, 2009; and a recipient of the Sloan grant, a MacDowell Colony fellowship and a Tofte Lake Artist Residency. Her one-act play Slapped Actress is published in the Best American Short Plays Anthology 2008-2009 by Applause Books.  She has an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

Stephanie Timm is company playwright for New Century Theatre Company, and recently finished a year-long residency with ACT Theatre. She was commissioned by 5th Avenue Musical Theatre to write Rosie the Riveter! with composer Albert Evans.  She was nominated for a Gregory Award for New Century Theatre Company's premiere of On the Nature of Dust. Her play Crumbs Are Also Bread was published in the recent Rain City Projects Manifesto Series, edited by Steven Dietz. Her plays have been produced and developed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, Kennedy Center, Lark Theatre, Boots Up Theatre Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, and Live Girls! among others. Stephanie also teaches at Cornish College of the Arts, and writes for video games.  Stephanie received her MFA from UC San Diego. 

All profit from the APP will help to fund the 2012 Young Playwrights Program providing much needed assistance to at least one low-income Puget Sound school that could not otherwise afford the program.

The Young Playwrights Program, ACT’s flagship education program, sends professional playwright/teaching artists into Puget Sound schools for ten weeks to teach the basics of playwriting. ACT’s YPP equips participants with tools for creative self-expression, endowing them with self-confidence and the sense that their ideas—about themselves, their world, and the challenges they face—matter, and their voices will be heard.

"ACT has shown me how to take an idea and make a world." - Ellie Drayton, Seattle Girls' School