Own Your Story: A Playwriting Workshop

Join an LGBTQIA+ writer’s room, learn to dramatize your life story or a powerful moment in your life, and build confidence in sharing what makes you unique. Through collaborative discussions, hands-on writing exercises, and opportunities to share, young artists will explore how to tell their life stories in a creative, safe, and dramatically thrilling way. 

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SMJ (they/them) is a mixed-Latiné and non-binary playwright, theatermaker, and educator. They are the Executive Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse and a former Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow. Their work has been seen at Ars Nova, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New York Stage and Film, Columbus Children's Theatre, Latinx Playwrights Circle, The Orchard Project, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and many different theaters throughout the United States. SMJ has proudly directed the high school premieres of Fun Home, John Proctor is the Villain, and Grief Camp for the Ohio Educational Theatre Association. www.smjwrites.com
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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