BFFs: Female Friendship on Stage

In this feminist playwriting workshop for all levels, participants will explore how to write unique female characters and create dynamic female friendships onstage. Through writing exercises and group discussion, they will develop short, original scenes about friendship that can be expanded into longer pieces. Want to learn how to write a relationship as memorable as Rachel and Monica?

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Catherine Weingarten is a friendly Jewish chick from an obscure area of Pennsylvania! Honors Include: the Scott McPherson Award and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She has previously developed her “girly, trashy” work with Dixon Place, The Tank, Less Than Rent, Sam French OOB Short Play Festival, Last Frontier Theater Conference. Catherine is passionate about theater education and making playwriting more fun, joyful and accessible to all her students. She has worked with Marquis Studios, The Apollo Theater and Ohio University. BA: Bennington College. MFA: Ohio University.
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Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; the Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund at New York Community Trust; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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