Register for the Next WTP Master Class on May 11 & 12 – CREATING IN COMMUNITY: A HEALING WORKSHOP
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| Join WTP for our next master class!Creating in Community: A Healing Workshop with Antonia LaChe’ McCain & Amber Bradshaw May 11 & 12 (Sat and Sun), 1-5pm At Windmill Arts in East PointInspired by Maria Irene Fornes, Augusto Boal, Meisner, Chekhov, and more, Antonia and Amber will lead the class in exploring process tools for creation. As artists, we all possess the ability to tap into our creative abilities and use them to move through struggle, loss, and grief. By working collaboratively, we can channel that struggle into a work of art. This class will explore how to release, how to dive in, and how to use your artistic talents to bring more light into your world and the world around you. Join us to explore ways to heal and create something beautiful as a community. Objective: Exploring the process of creating collaborative art as a healing tool. We will:Dive into movement practice and embodimentExplore inner child playDevise using Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to create imagery and narrativeUse writing and movement prompts to develop new stories, planets and charactersShare our experiencesABOUT Antonia and Amber  ANTONIA LACHE’ MCCAIN (she/her) is an actress, arts administrator, facilitator, educator, and New Play dramaturg. She is a proud WTP board member and currently serves as its Vice President, as well as WTP’s General Manager. In 2021-2022, Antonia trained in New Play Development Dramaturgy technique as the Apprentice for Working Title Playwrights. Her approach to dramaturgy is playwright-centered and strongly rooted in a love of characters and stories. As an educator, Antonia teaches her students the techniques of Chekhov to help them better utilize their bodies as instruments, allowing them to effectively express their stories. Antonia has an impressive list of credits as a performer, including roles in productions such as Romeo & Juliet and Troilus & Cressida at the ATL Shakespeare Tavern, Mlima’s Tale at 7 Stages, Crossroads at Actor’s Express, and Cassie’s Ballad with Found Stages. She has also performed in regional productions such as The Colored Museum, Stop Kiss, A Flea In Her Ear, Clybourne Park, Dracula, and Underpants at Hilberry Theatre. Antonia has toured nationally with National Players Tour 65 productions of Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, and Odyssey at the Olney Theatre Center. She holds a double major in Theatre and Advertising, along with a minor in Sociology from the University of Georgia, and an MFA in Acting from Wayne State University.  AMBER BRADSHAW (she/they) is the Managing Artistic Director of Working Title Playwrights. They are a new play dramaturg, director, moderator, dancer and playwright with a sole focus in new works and script development. In Atlanta they have worked with Actor’s Express, Theater Emory, Kennesaw State University, Synchronicity Theatre, the Center for Puppetry Arts, Out of Hand Theatre, Out Front Theatre, Gathering Wild Dance, Staibdance and Theatrical Outfit. Since 2006, Amber has directed, dramaturged and produced play readings as a freelance artist in Atlanta. That experience led her to WTP. For WTP, Amber dramaturgs for the Ethel Woolson Lab and the Table Series, moderates regularly for all WTP programs, teaches a year-long New Play Dramaturgy & Playwriting Intensive and hosts a podcast about development work called TABLEWORK: HOW NEW PLAYS GET MADE. They have co-produced and written several original works (A virtual dance piece- Chords Bare, co-choreographed with Nadya Zeitlin; Circa 50 with Gathering Wild; Learning to Fly with the Center for Puppetry Arts and Identified: A Queer Variety Show! with choreographer/performance artist Corian Ellisor). Amber is a founding member of I.D.E.A. ATL (Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in the Arts Atlanta). She is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (2017), the 2020 Class of the Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta (ALMA) and a new Affiliate Artist with Theater Emory (2023). REGISTER for Creating in Community: A Healing WorkshopWHEN Saturday, May 11th: 1-5pm and Sunday, May 12th: 1-5pm COST This sliding scale is our inclusive way of offering this course. Through these fees we cover our class costs and train current and future new development artists. Please contact Amber (managing@workingtitleplaywrights) for more details. $75-125 for WTP member playwrights and Acting Ensemble $150-200 for non-members Pre-payment is required to reserve your seat. To pay online, please send your payment to paypal: managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com. Please make sure to confirm there is space before you pay. REGISTER by email to managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com LOCATION Windmill Arts in East Point |
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