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 received a 2022 NYSCA Artist Commissioning Grant to work on a new piece about the climate crisis, a 2018 Queens Council Commissioning Grant, and a 2013 NYFA fellowship, among other honors. She is a faculty member at NYU's Gallatin School. Her works include Yo Miss!, Denial of the Fittest, A Tattle Tale, It Can Happen Here, and 1001 Voices. Sloan also founded an arts program for immigrant teenagers, Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts, which garnered a Partnership in Education Award.
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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.
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