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. She is the co-author of Crossing the BLVD (winner of the Brendan Gill Prize). Sloan is currently working on two new projects: This is Not a Drill, about climate change which received a 2022 NYSCA Artist Commissioning Grant and Imperfect Allies, a project that brings disparate groups together in dialogue, most recently a collaboration between Palestinian and Jewish theater artists. She is a faculty member at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her works include Yo Miss!, Denial of the Fittest, A Tattle Tale, It Can Happen Here, and 1001 Voices. Sloan's multimedia art projects based on the stories of new immigrants and refugees have been recognized by the Brendan Gill Prize and a Partnership in Education Award for her Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts program with immigrant teenagers. www.judithsloan.com 
EarSay (co-founded by Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer) is an artist-driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to nurturing and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. EarSay projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. EarSay artists 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. www.earsay.org 
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 Long Island Community Foundation, 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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