[NEohioPAL] "Creative Writing -Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & Fiction Writers” This Sat. 5/16

[sue holland johnson]

There's Still Time . . .   “Tricks of the Trade: Creative    
     Writing for Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & Fiction Writers”

Register Now to Attend This  Offering 
 from 
WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio
 
Live out of town?  Interested, but can’t attend? 
 We can bring “Tricks of the Trade” & “PlayActs” Performances to you!
Private Coaching available by appointment.
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Sat. 5/16:  “Tricks of the Trade: Creative Writing 
                                                              for
                                Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & Fiction Writers”
with 
Sue Johnson, Ruby Fox and Gary Webster.
Sat. 5/16/09
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, May 16th
                      10:00 – 1:00  P
 
 WHERE:   Van Aken, Shaker Heights, OH.
 
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 strong characters and events: Concept, 
                    Content, & Format for each genre. 
 
FEE:      $40.00                
                Make checks payable to: 
                WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio 
                Credit Cards accepted.  Email: wakeup4664 at aol.com
 
[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,20and fiction.  Editing services 
             customized  to meet your specific needs.
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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 50-year period.
              Sue produces, directs and co-hosts “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” a nd “A New You For A New Life.” The programs air on Cox Cable, ch. 45  and Cleveland Access, ch. 197, as well as YouTube. 
Sue’s professional acting credits include recent appearances in Cleveland area theatres. She has directed My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office, a commissioned play, numerous “PlayActs” Performances, staged readings for Jim Spriggs’ Terror on Biddle Street (2005), and Faye Sholiton’s All Things Being Equal (2006) for Karamu’s Arenafest. TV credits include A & E’s 100 Centre Street, and films, Antwone Fisher directed by Denzel Washington, and The Year That Trembled, Jay Craven, Director. Her talent resume lists numerous TV commercials, industrials, and voiceovers.  
Johnson’s “Tricks of the Trade: Craft, Career & Professional Development” workshops and private coaching are wellknown throughout the performing arts and business community, as are her “Tricks of th e Trade: Acting Seminars for Business & Leadership Training” consultations, workshops and private coaching. Her “WAKE UP And LIVE Life Lesson” series has been recently added to her coaching and consulting repertoire.  Sue has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years as a small business consultant and as a small business owner.  She shares her expertise based on her extensive experiences and the most up-to-date artistic and business development practices.
 
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 an d, 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 Hilda20and 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?  premiered as a stage reading  in  “PlayActs” Performances,  2007.  More recently, Gary has penned the “TV Divas” ‘Sistahs and Their Mistahs’ and ‘The Divas Do Vegas’ series being performed in “PlayActs” Performances.
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 can20find more of Webster’s work at www.keepwriting.net.
 
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About WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio
 
              WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio is a non-profit 501©3 organization dedicated to education and the performing arts.  Established in 1997, we have provided aspiring and experienced performing artists with an opportunity to learn, improve and practice their crafts and skills through “PlayActs ” Performances, which provides actors and performing artists the opportunity to showcase their talents through plays, prose, poetry, performance pieces, dance and music.
We produce WUAL TV’s “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” and “A New You For A New Life” which can be seen on, on Cox cable, channel 45, and Cleveland Access, channel 197, as well as clips on YouTube.
We also offer video web streaming which enables an artist to literally do a self-promoting commercial over the Internet.
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