WRITING AND PERFORMING THE STORIES OF OUR LIVES

     This workshop is a hands-on experience using interviewing, free-writing, and collaborative improvisation to create scripts that reflect communities. Participants will work as a group to create a poetic script and will experiment with movement and structure to complete a short performance by the end of the workshop. The exercises and tools in this workshop can be used for a variety of community building projects in addition to performance works. Think of this workshop as a speed writing template for what is a longer process.

Presented by...

     Judith Sloan is an actor, radio producer and educator. Co-author of Crossing the BLVD, (winner Brendan Gill Prize ), She received a 2022 NYSCA Artist Commissioning Grant to work on a new piece about the Climate Crisis, a 2018 Queens Council Commissioning Grant, a 2013 (NYFA) fellowship, among others. She is a member of the faculty at NYU Gallatin School. Works include: Yo Miss! Denial of the Fittest, A Tattle Tale and It Can Happen Here and 1001 Voices. Sloan founded an arts program for immigrant teenagers, Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts garnering a Partnership in Education Award.

EarSay

     EarSay is an artist-driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. Our projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. We are committed to fostering understanding across cultures, generations, gender and class, through artistic productions and education. We bring our work to theatres, museums, schools, festivals, universities and prisons. EarSay has received numerous awards and grants from foundations and agencies, including the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts among others.
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 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.
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