In this virtual, interactive 4-session, 2-hour workshop, Dr. Mary Weems will share her technique for writing monologues and short plays as political acts. Participants are asked to bring one to three social issues (racism, the Pandemic, transphobia, religious intolerance, sexism, the environment, poverty, etc) they would like to address in writings for the stage.
This class is presented in partnership with Playwrights Local.
Instructor: Dr. Mary E. Weems' is a poet, playwright, author, performer, imagination-intellect theorist, and social/cultural foundations scholar. Weems is the author of thirteen books including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (2015) Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect and Public Education and the Imagination Intellect: I Speak from the wound in my Mouth, five chapbooks, most notably “white” (Wick Award), and numerous poems, articles and book chapters. In 2015 Weems’ was awarded a Cleveland Arts Prize for her full-length drama MEAT. Dr. Weems may be reached at www.maryeweems.org.
Details: Act Out! Playwriting Workshop takes place Thursdays Sep 10-Oct 1 from 6-8pm remotely through Zoom. Register and we will send along information about how to connect via Zoom.
