[NEohioPAL] Register for Playwriting Class at Olmsted Performing Arts

[Christine McBurney via NEohioPAL]

Register for Playwriting Class at Olmsted Performing Arts


In this course you learn how to transform your ideas, thoughts, dreams, and
feelings into a theatrical event: a 10-minute play that will take the
audience on a journey. Working with writing prompts and multiple creative
writing exercises, you will create compelling characters in conflict and
share your writing in a supportive workshop setting. You will also learn
how to structure and format a play so that it is ready to be submitted to
playwriting festivals. This 90-minute class runs for a 9-week session
(January 24 - March 21).


Christine McBurney is a performing artist working in film, on stage, and in
commercials and voice overs; an educator, and a freelance writer.  She is a
co-founder and Co-Producing Artistic Director of Mamai Theatre Company.
 Since 2002 she has taught theatre arts and film at Shaker Heights High
School, serving as chair for 8 years. She has coached two
Cleveland regional winners of the ESU Shakespeare Competitions and dozens
of her students have had their plays produced in Shaker Theatre’s New
Stages and have gone on to become Dobama Theatre Marilyn Bianchi Kids
Playwriting Festival winners. She has won awards from The National
Endowment for the Humanities, writemovies.com, and Who's Who Among
America's Teachers.  Since earning her BA from Columbia University and her
MFA from Kent State University, she has continued her training at
Shakespeare & Company, The National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare, and
The Juilliard School.  She has served on the Selection Committee of The
Cleveland International Film Festival and the board of Cleveland
Shakespeare Festival. Selected acting roles include Mrs. Smith in THE BALD
SOPRANO (Ohio City Theatre Project), Maria in TWELFTH NIGHT (Cleveland
Shakespeare Festival), Ensemble in A DREAM PLAY and Cook in THE SEAGULL
(Cleveland Play House) and Sue in FEFU AND HER FRIENDS (Cleveland Public
Theatre).  Selected directing credits include: BOSTON MARRIAGE, ARCADIA
(Mamai Theatre Company), MARY ZIMMERMAN'S METAMORPHOSES, THE IMPORTANCE OF
BEING EARNEST, RAGTIME, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH
NIGHT, INTO THE WOODS, WONDERFUL TOWN (Shaker Theatre), Cleveland Public
Theatre New Plays Festival, and Dobama Theatre's Marilyn Bianchi Kids
Playwriting Festival.  She has written for The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Northern Ohio Live, Belt Magazine, Fresh Water Cleveland, coolcleveland.com,
and others.
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