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NEW BOOK!!! SWEATIN' IT WITH PROFESSIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS
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"I love that my former NYU professor/mentor Mac Wellman writes an anti-exercise essay that follows my exercise. Mac, I still have your reading list!!!" Elizabeth Wong
From Editors Michael Bigelow Dixon and Liz Engelman....
THE PLAYWRIGHT'S WORKOUT
A collection of prompts and writing exercises from professional playwrights, including:
Janet Allard, Lee Blessing, Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Lisa D'Amour, Dan Dietz, Jordan Harrison, Jeffrey Hatcher, Naomi Iiuzuka, Jon Jory, Arthur Kopit, Sherry Kramer, Carson Kreitzer, Carter Lewis, Romulus Linney, Craig Lucas, Edwardo Machado, Emily Mann, Melanie Marnich, Ellen McLaughlin, Marsha Norman, Kira Obolensky, Jose Rivera, Sarah Ruhl, Caridad Svich, C. Denby Swanson, Kathleen Tolan, Alice Tuan, Mac Wellman...and bringing up the rear, ELIZABETH WONG.
"The exercises are put in alphabetical order, so once again I'm sitting at the back of the class...and I can't see the chalkboard!!!! But I'm happy to precede the anti-exercise of my former NYU teacher and mentor Mac Wellman. Mac, I still have your reading list and I did read CHAOS by James Gleick thanks to you!!!" -- Elizabeth Wong.
"I had just finished a two-month long artist residency at State University of New York, Albany where I was directing my play LETTERS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY and teaching Diversity in American Contemporary Drama (A special quarter-long course emphasizing Sexuality, Gender and Political Issues in Asian American Drama)...when Michael approached me to contribute to his new book. Students in my class reported fascinating and life-threatening results when I had sent them out onto campus to eavesdrop on their fellow classmates, so of course, it was a natural to chronicle this exercise and offer it up to Michael."
"Hopefully the lessons of my eavesdropping exercise far outweight the dangers. Just don't get caught. And if you are be sure to run like hell!!!" --Elizabeth Wong
COMING UP SOON ON SPOTLIGHT ...
WITNESS TO HISTORY -- "LETTERS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY" POST PLAY DISCUSSION ON THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE
(LEFT TO RIGHT) Producer and panel moderator Edward Gunawan, who also performed in the play; Playwright Elizabeth Wong; Ann Lau, "Letters" produceer, Visual Arts Guild; James Zimmerman, Amnesty International, and Catherine Bauknight, photographer who was in the square. CHECK BACK SOON!
Thanks to Peter Kuo for this moving production and for organizing the candlelight vigil. Job Well Done!!!! Nice color programs and posters too!!!
This commemorative
June 4 performance is an encore of performances that took place February 28
and March 1 also at Democracy Forum in the National Center for the
Preservation of Democracy, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and was produced
by Addword Productions, in association with Metamorphosis Theatre and
Visual Arts Guild.
