Writing for the Stage or Screen With a Social Voice

Aspiring playwrights, screenwriters, and composer/lyricists will explore the process of creating an original work that will Stage a Change. 
Topics will include: 
• Finding a story to tell 
• Clearing source material 
• Structuring your story 
• Assembling a creative team

Presented by: 

​Jim Hoare

Jim Hoare, Executive VP, TRW. This is Jim’s 43rd year in Educational Theatre. He has presented workshops throughout the USA and UK, and in 2011 he received the New York State Theatre Education Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Jim is the author of Your High School Improv Show Playbook, (Theatrefolk, 2019).

Lysna Marzan

Lysna Marzani, Executive Director, TRW Plays has lived the world of theatre throughout her career and is a specialist in all aspects of play publishing and licensing. She is highly respected and possesses an incredible reservoir of relationships, knowledge and experience that will have TRW Plays handling exciting, meaningful, and inspiring titles.

​Peter Hoare

Peter Hoare, screenwriter, Standing Up, Falling Down starring Billy Crystal (premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival). Upcoming projects include Family Jewels (New Republic, with Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton), Student Driver (Netflix, Jason Bateman producer) and Down Under Cover (Paramount, with Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish). 
TRW represents a wide range of musicals. Broadway titles with School Editions include THE ADDAMS FAMILY, BRIGHT STAR, SPAMALOT, BIG FISH, MEMPHIS, GHOST, ALL SHOOK UP, BEEHIVE and WE WILL ROCK YOU. All TRW perusal scripts are now FREE!

​STAGE THE CHANGE
This project is made possible with funds from The Arts Reach Fund at Long Island Community Foundation and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. HEARTS (Helping Enrich the Arts of Port Washington)- Fiscal Sponsor.  

Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Hauppauge Public Schools and the Tiles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post
This project is made possible with funds from the Arts Reach Fund at Long Island Community Foundation the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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