No yoga or previous meditation experience is necessary to take this class.
Playwrights write with more than our minds, we write with our bodies. Through yoga, meditation and writing prompts; participants are invited to unlock their own inner mysteries, personal power and unique and essential voice.
The great playwright, teacher and director Maria Irene Fornes, famous for her writing labs at INTAR* and her successful and radical playwriting career, started every writing prompt with at least ten minutes of Yoga. Fornes did this because she believed it allows our brains to disconnect and our bodies to lead. This work can tap into our subconscious and release stories that we have yet to tell.
Explore your multitudes in this writing workshop taught by Lucy Smith. This four week course will explore writing through the chakra system. The chakras are in our energetic architecture. Movement followed by writing prompts can aid in meaning-making in our creative work and our lives. This workshop is designed to help playwrights explore character, storytelling and self.
*INTAR Theater, with its varied programs, including a MainStage Season and the NewWorks Lab, has played a major role in identifying, supporting, nurturing, developing and producing unique theatrical Latino voices that have made a significant impact in American dramatic writing.
LUCY SMITH is an actor, playwright and newly practicing dramaturg. She recently wrote and performed in her first play as a playwright called Chorus of Bears which premiered at Synchronicity Theater (October 2020) with dramaturgy by Amber Bradshaw and direction by Rachel May. She is a certified Grounded Yoga teacher, a Reiki practitioner and a licensed massage therapist for 15 years. As a voracious student of the healing arts, she has attended many healing arts workshops ranging from energy healing to Qoya to meditation to Celtic shamanism. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in Acting and BA from Bard College with a double major in Film and Drama/Dance. She has worked as a theatermaker with many New York City devised theater companies such as the TEAM, the SITI Company, International WOW, Anonymous Ensemble, the Foundry Theater and Dodeska. Some of her favorite credits include Helena/Snug/Lead Fairy in the SITI company’s touring version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a co-writer and performer in International WOW’s “The Comfort and Safety of your Own Home”, Dorothy in the TEAM’s European tour of “Particularly in the Heartland”, and Shen Te/Shui Ta in “The Good Person of Setzuan”. She returned home to Atlanta almost a decade ago. She also teaches yoga and theater to children and is in love with raising her son who is in kindergarten.
YOGA for PLAYWRIGHTS – 2 sessions
SCHEDULE
Session 1: Saturday, June 5
Session 2: Sunday, June 6 All sessions are from 1-3PM EST
All sessions will be recorded, if you miss a session, the recording will be shared with you.
COST
This sliding scale is our inclusive way of offering this course. Through these fees we cover our class costs, support WTP programming and train current and future new development artists. Please contact Quinn (assistant@workingtitleplaywrights) for more details.
$50-75 for WTP members
$100-150 for non-members
Audit option available as Pay-What-You-Can for WTP Playwright and Ensemble members
Pre-payment is required to reserve your seat. Please make sure you register and receive confirmation before you pay. To pay for your spot in class please use Paypal. Send your payment to managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com.
