[NEohioPAL] "Tricks of the Trade: Creative Writing for Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & Fiction Writers

[sue holland johnson]

                            WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio 
 
       “Tricks of the Trade: Creative Writing for  
        Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & 
        Fiction Writers”
with 
Sue Johnson, Ruby Fox and Gary Webster.
Sat. 4/18/09
10:00 – 1:00 P
  
WHO:          Aspiring Playwrights, Screen and Fiction Writers
 
WHAT:       A 3-hour workshop to help you develop your creative work.  Explore 
                      how you can develop and translate your creative writing ideas into 
                      actual content.  Discuss and read your work-in-progress to fellow 
                      writers in an informal setting and get feedback.  Here’s your 
                      chance to express your creativity through developing and writing 
                      drama, comedy or 'dramedy' and get insights and advice from 
                      experienced writers and directors.
 
 WHEN:    Saturday, April 18th
                      10:00 – 1:00  P
 
 WHERE:    Shaker Heights, OH.
                        (email: wakeup4664 at aol.com for location.)
 
HOW:          Johnson, Fox & Webster will help you learn and/or “fine tune and 
                       tweak” the fundamentals of writing. Hone your skills or learn how 
                       to combine the elements (exposition, setting, characters, plot, 
                       theme, climax, denouement, etc.) in the craft of writing a stage 
                       play, screen play, or fiction, which tells a story through characters 
                       and events: Concept, Content, & Format for each genre. 
 
FEE:      $40.00   Advanced Registration required.  Registration must be received 
                            by Wed. April 15th.
              $30.00   If paid in full by Mon. 4/13.  Save $10.00
 
             Make checks payable & mail to: 
             WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio 
             P.O. Box 201524. Shaker Heights . OH . 44120
             Credit Cards accepted.  
 
[NOTE:  You will need to bring multiple copies of pages to be read/worked on at the 
               session. Upon registration, you’ll be informed of number of copies to bring.]

Can’t Attend the Workshop?  
Ask about our Reading, Review & Revision for Plays, Film Scripts & Prose Editing Service.
          Do you have  completed, or a work- in -progress?  A play? Film script? Or, prose?  Sue Johnson will read your work for content, format, character & scene development, theme, plot, logic, sequence and other basic elements which will help make your work eligible and more attractive to be considered for full productions, staged readings, or publication.
 
             Fees:   Begin at $35.00 for Initial Reading & Editing evaluation for One-Acts, 
                           Film Scripts and Fiction (50 pages max).  Additional fees required for 
                           reading & editing 2-Acts, multiple scenes, other play or film drafts, and 
                           fiction.  Editing services customized to meet your specific needs.
 

The instructors . . .
 
. Sue Johnson, Director of the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio, is an actor, director, producer and coach who writes and co-authors plays with Ruby Fox and Gary Webster. Fox, Webster and Johnson co-wrote Harlem Blues, which was staged in “PlayActs” Performances, 2004. Fox and Johnson were co-writers with Gary Webster who conceived and wrote My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office, commissioned by the Ohio Education Association.

Sue and Leon Bibb, news anchor, WEWS TV, are known for their “PlayActs” Performances and touring productions of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters. Love Letters tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd, III and Melissa Gardner’s extensive relationship over a 60-year period.
              Sue produces, directs and co-hosts “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” and “A New You For A New Life.” The programs air on Cox Cable, ch. 45  and Cleveland Access, ch. 197.  Johnson's "Tricks of the Trade: Craft, Career & Professional Development" workshops and private coaching are well-known throughout the performing arts and business community.
           For more information about the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio "PlayActs" Performances, Touring Productions, of Love Letters and the TV Divas, Training or, about being a guest on “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” or “A New You For A New Life,” email: wakeup4664 at aol.com..

            
. Robert “Ruby” Fox, Playwright –in – Residence, has written both drama and comedy which reflect his deep understanding of people, their foibles and triumphs.  Over the years, he has written such diverse pieces as Wednesdays with Hilda which addresses race relations and touches the heart with Jewish heritage and, Sophie’s Legacy, which takes an improbable look at “creative pregnancy.”  Ruby is also co-author, along with Gary Webster and Sue Johnson of Harlem Blues, a play about four female African-American actors in Harlem, which sprung from his fertile imagination. Ruby also was part of the writing team for Webster’s My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office which was commissioned by the Ohio Education Association.   For the past 6 years, Ruby has been leading a writers’ group that meets at Borders Books, Severance Town Center in Cleveland Heights, OH.
              Ruby has seen his original one-act plays, Wednesdays with Hilda and Celibacy Odyssey performed at the Cleveland Play House.  He has been  featured twice  in the Cleveland Jewish News as an “elder” person and playwright of distinction.   The WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio dedicated its 2005-06 season of “PlayActs” to Ruby.  In September, 2005, Ruby and Celibacy Odyssey  headed to the Big Apple, where Celibacy Odyssey, “a farcical fantasy romp,” was performed off-Broadway at the Studio Theatre. His plays have also been read at the Cleveland Play House, Cuyahoga Community College and Ensemble Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio.  
  
. Gary Webster, Playwright – in – Residence, had “PlayActs” Performances, 2006-07 dedicated to him in recognition of his extraordinary writing contributions to WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio.  Gary has been working with WAKE UP And LIVE since 1998.  As a prolific sketch writer, he co-wrote Harlem Blues with Fox and Johnson, and was the head writer on My Big, Fat Dysfunctional Office, which was performed in Columbus, OH, before an appreciative group of members of the Ohio Education Association. His full-length play, Strictly Platonic? =2 0premiered as a stage reading  in  “PlayActs” Performances,  2007.
Gary has been writing plays since high school. The first he can remember was written in eleventh grade. It was titled "This Wasn't What I Had in Mind," and the topic was...surprise...relationships!  He followed that up with parodies of several Shakespearian plays.  Gary made his directorial debut with Saturday Confessions, A Priest’s Tale, which was performed at Cleveland Public Theater.  He’s been a member of Fox’s writing group for years. His playwright's training came via Bob Noll's class at the Cleveland Playhouse.   Gary is the morning announcer and operations manager at WBKC/AM-1460 in Painesville, in addition to being a performer, essayist, and director.   You can find more of Webster’s work at www.keepwriting.net.
 
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