Writing Workshop - Writing Without a Map w/ Tanya Barfield

Tanya Barfield

New Dramatists is excited to offer you a one-day only 3-hour Workshop with Tanya Barfield - Pulitzer Nominee and recent winner of the first Lilly Award Commission for Excellence in Playwriting!

Please join us this THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH 2-5pm for WRITING WITHOUT A MAP.

Tanya's workshop is part of New Dramatists' dual-service program which brings unique, low-cost writing classes (taught by our award-winning resident playwrights and distinguished alumni) to the general public. ALL PROCEEDS go toward an emergency fund provided for in-need writers who apply...

To enroll please write to us at ndworkshops@yahoo.com immediately. Classes are almost always on Saturday - for this Thursday class placement is extremely limited.

Writing Without a Map: This workshop will focus on starting a play, from the development of story ideas, exploration of character to the early stages of structure. You may come in with anything from a preliminary idea to the very beginning of a play. The afternoon will focus on an intuitive approach to dramatic structure, inspiring an organic writing process.

Tanya Barfield’s plays include: Of Equal Measure (Center Theatre Group), Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory; Seattle Repertory, Berkeley Repertory and additional theaters), Dent, The Quick, The Houdini Act and 121º West. She wrote the book for the Theatreworks/USA children’s musical: Civil War: The First Black Regiment. Blue Door was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is published by Dramatists Play Service. Tanya was a recipient of the 2003 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, 2005 Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for Drama, a 2006 Lark Play Development/NYSCA grant, a 2007 Finalist for the Hull-Warner Award and she has been twice been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Primary Stages and Geva Theatre Center. She is a member of New Dramatists and serves on the Dramatist Guild Council. Her play, The Call, premiered as a co-production between Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages in April 2013.