Leap:
Playwriting Intensive at the Arts Club Theatre
for Teen Writers (Grades 10-12)
A
Leap into the Professional Theatre
Creative Leaps in your own writing
Leap
through Cyberspace
Dates: November 26, 2007- March
4, 2008
CLASSES IN PLAYWRITING
Four months of playwriting classes at the Arts Club Theatre with
playwright Shawn Macdonald, both live and online in the TELUS Classroom,
includes ground breaking exercises, how to write a full-length play,
creation of a short play, online chats, personal feedback on work
submitted, access to the online classroom for Leap students only, special
guest speakers.
SEE PLAYS, MEET PROFESSIONALS
Tour the Arts Club Theatre, Meet Theatre Professionals who work on New
Plays, Field Trips to Plays
HAVE A PROFESSIONAL READING OF YOUR PLAY
by Professional Actors at the Arts Club
LEARN HOW TO PRODUCE YOUR PLAYS
Discussions on how to re-write a play after a reading, how to submit a
play to a theatre, and information on international youth playwriting
competitions and opportunities
All students accepted into the program will be on FULL SCHOLARSHIP. The students will have to arrange their own transportation to and from the Arts Club playwriting classes, readings, and shows.
APPLY
Submit the following by e-mail, or mail (Arts Club Theatre Company/LEAP/1585 Johnston Street/Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9), by November 15, 2007. Any questions? Call 604-687-5315, x. 310.
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1-2 page sample of ANY writing you feel good about. This could be a poem, essay, monologue, scene, short play, letter, whatever you like. It can be something you wrote previously, or hot off the presses. 2 pages Maximum, 12 point font.
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A paragraph about you and why you’d like to participate in LEAP.
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Your phone number and e-mail address. We will contact you by November 15.
CONTACT
Any questions? Contact Shawn Macdonald at 604-687-5315 ext. 310 or by
email.
DATES
Monday OR Tuesday evenings from November 26 to December 18, January 14 to
March 4; on-site classes at the Arts Club Theatre.
Online-January 14-March 4; online classes overlap with on-site classes during this time.
February 11-13: Presentation of Short Plays at ReACT, the Arts Club's festival of new plays.
Field trips to Arts Club shows, dates and times to be arranged.
INSTRUCTOR/PROGRAM LEADER:
Shawn
Macdonald is an award-winning playwright and actor.
His play Prodigal
Son won the Jessie Award for Outstanding Original Script last year. He
co-wrote the comedies World’s Greatest Guy and Fear Knot (with Gary
Jones) for the
Arts Club Theatre Company and his newest play The Fall of Sister
Judy was commissioned by the Arts Club Theatre Company as part of the Silver
Commissions Program.
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO CLIPS OF SOME
OF LAST YEAR'S STUDENT READINGS
Sponsored by:
Supported by: TELUS Vancouver Community Board