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BE A WRITER
IN NEW YORK CITY.
URBAN RETREAT: A
Summer Writers Workshop
Saturday, July 10—Sunday, July 18, 2010
“I can’t explain how wonderful it is to be sitting in a dark
theatre, knowing that your play is next and being absolutely terrified that your play is
next.”
Playwright Alison Stine on her experiences
in the Urban Retreat.
Young Playwrights Inc.’s URBAN RETREAT is a nine-day intensive program in playwriting for writers
aged 14 to 21.
Open by application only, each year young writers from across the United States
come to New York City to attend the retreat.
URBAN RETREAT participants:
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Take daily
writing workshops conducted by Young Playwrights Inc. workshop leaders that allow you to explore
the basic elements of
playwriting, discover new ideas and situations to write
about, share and receive feedback on your work, and revise and deepen your
writing.
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Engage in
luncheon roundtable discussions related to the craft and business of playwriting
with theater professionals.
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Attend
the best of what New York Theater has to offer including Broadway and Off Broadway shows.
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Receive
one-on-one feedback on your writing from a professional dramaturg.
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Write a new
short play.
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Rehearse with
a professional director and actors in preparation for an Off Broadway staged
reading of your new play to be produced at the close
of URBAN RETREAT.
In 1981, Stephen Sondheim and other
members of the Dramatists Guild brought renowned British director and educator Gerald
Chapman from London’s Royal Court Theatre to New York to inspire a new generation of
playwrights. Out of this collaboration came the groundbreaking Young Playwrights Festival
and Write a Play! Workshops. Through these programs, over 30,000 young people have
been exposed to the art of playwriting. Now we’re making our process available to
you. You can study playwriting in the world’s most exciting theater environment at Young
Playwrights Inc.’s Urban Retreat!
Retreat participants will take two
to three
intensive workshops daily. These sessions are designed to get you started on a
play, help you create complex characters and distinctive dialogue, offer
solutions to writer’s block, and explore revisions. You will
also attend discussions and lectures by prominent theater artists and work one-on-one
with our workshop leaders on revising and deepening your writing; and you will
collaborate with professional dramaturgs, directors, and actors on the production of your
new play. Interspersed with this intensive study will be outings to New York productions.
Urban Retreat participants will live in
dormitory-style housing, supervised by responsible resident advisors.
Tuition for the Urban Retreat is
$1750,
including meals, housing, theater tickets, and local transportation.
A NYC resident rate of $975 is available for local participants that
do not require housing.
Take advantage of our Early Bird Rate and take $175 off the non-resident rate
when you register by March 1, 2010!
Open to writers aged 14-21.
Final
Application Postmark Deadline:
Friday, May 1, 2010
Click to download:
Flyer (PDF)
Application Form
(PDF)
Article: We Theater
Geeks by Jason Fitzgerald, UR 2002
For more information call 212.594.5440 or email
registration@youngplaywrights.org.
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following types of mail:
Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt,
Delivery or Signature Confirmation
Sending mail such as those above that require authorized
signatures will delay our receipt of your mail.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
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