✍️ WORKSHOP: Intro to Intuitive Playwriting w/ Amy Berryman
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
How much do you have to know about a story to begin? How can writers tap into their intuition to develop characters, scenes, and conflict for the stage?
Join us for a 90 minute workshop with playwright Amy Berryman for lecture and prompt-writing designed to encourage writers to work intuitively and dive in before knowing everything—or even anything—about their play.
In this workshop, writers will:
Be guided through the process of finding their story by diving into their story
Learn and practice antidotes for writer's block
Learn writing exercises that will teach writers to listen to their characters, create conflict on the page, and more!
About Amy Berryman
Amy Berryman is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teaching artist originally from Seattle by way of West Texas. Her play “Walden,” produced by Sonia Friedman and directed by Ian Rickson, premiered on London’s West End in May 2021. “Walden” was also produced at TheaterWorks in Hartford in August 2021, directed by Mei Ann Teo, and received a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Other full-length plays include “The New Galileos” (O’Neill Finalist 2019); “Three Year Summer;” and “Epiphany, Or What Would You?” (finalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, O'Neill Semi-Finalist 2020). Her work has been developed at Premiere Stages, Kitchen Dog, Caltech, East 15, Portland Stage, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and AMiOS, among others. Amy has recently received a commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and is developing her pilot, “Abstinence Only,” with Phenomenal Content. amy-berryman.com
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Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti are the co-founders of the London Writers' Salon, creators of the webby-nominated Writers' Hour daily writing sessions, and hosts of the London Writers' Salon podcast.
Parul Bavishi has been an editor for over a decade. In addition to running LWS she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the Story Grid. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses TV hit shows (Killing Eve, Ozark, Game of Thrones) on the Story Grid Showrunners Podcast.
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