Robey Theatre Company’s
Upcoming 2008 Programs:
2008-Upcoming Advanced Scene
Study Workshop
The Robey Theatre Company’s
Advanced Scene Study Summer 2008 session will begin Monday, August
4, 2008 at the Raven Playhouse located at 5233 Lankershim Blvd. in
North Hollywood (Magnolia is the cross street). Workshop time is
from 7-10pm. There are no major holidays during this session. The
workshop ends Monday, October 8, 2008. Ben Guillory conducts the
workshop.
The cost is $450.00. ***Payment in full is required by July 28,
2008.*** There are no refunds. Obviously, this is to assure your
commitment to the workshop, your craft, colleagues and myself.
There is a $10.00 charge for returned checks.
The process begins Monday, August 4, 2008 with a 7 pm Orientation
at the Raven Playhouse. You’ll meet the other actors; match scene
and scene partners. Actors will work out the rehearsal schedules
and questions will be answered about scene presentation, etc.
Note: It is extremely important that actors attend this
orientation!
Please check your schedules before you make the commitment as it
effects others working with you.
Workshop Dates:
Orientation- Monday, August 4 (Mandatory)
Scene Presentation Begins:
Monday, Aug 11, 18, 25
Monday, Sept 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Monday Oct. 1,8
Please mail headshot and resume to Robey Theatre Company, 514 S.
Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Ben Guillory
Producing/Artistic Director
RTC
2008-Playwrightss Program
The Robey Theatre Playwrights
Program has, during the course of the past two years, created and
refined itself. The program’s curriculum will address the various
needs and skill levels of each participant. Each workshop will
demonstrate and practice using the nuts and bolts (the how-to) of
playwriting. It will be craft-intensive. The Instructor will
demonstrate the nature of character, dialogue, conflict and
resolution, and their relationships to one another. Writers will
practice scene construction with material based on their own
personal experiences. Actors will read the drafts of plays in the
workshop when appropriate. There will be a good deal of
flexibility and a great deal of personal attention to the creation
of individual processes of working and the development of craft
technique. The next 10-week Playwrights workshop, begins
Saturday, June 7, 2008 and will meet every Saturday through August
2, 2008. There is a maximum of 12 writers.
Aaron Henne
will again conduct the 10am-1pm session and the newly added
intermediate 2-5pm session. Robey welcomes Aaron back and
anticipate a very energized, full and nurturing atmosphere that is
proven to work well for the Playwrights’ creative process.
Aaron’s knowledge and experience will be a greatly appreciated
layer to the workshop’s process.
Aaron Henne
is resident Playwrights for the Ovation Award Winning Son of Semele
Ensemble, which has produced his plays Bare and King Cat
Calico Finally Flies Free! Most recently, the Odyssey Theatre
commissioned Aaron for a new play, Sliding into Hades,
which was produced spring 2007. He has also served in various
dramaturgical and script development capacities for Culture Clash,
The Mark Taper Forum, The Theatre at Boston Court and the Colony
Theatre. For his play Strut, Aaron was honored as a
finalist for The Jerome Fellowship in Playwriting and for the
Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship. Aaron has taught Theatre and
Playwriting at the University of Alabama and currently serves as
the Educational Programs Director for We Tell Stories.
Dylan Southard
will also join us once again to guide the afternoon work. He will
conduct a 2-5pm session, which will focus on a
re-examination of plays to clarify the more advanced aspects of
playwriting: style, tone, premise, etc. Reworked plays will also
receive in-house readings by actors when appropriate. Some of
these plays will receive a public reading. His experience has
certainly added to the process and Robey welcomes and looks
forward to his continued participation.
Dylan Southard
is a freelance dramaturg and literary consultant for several
theaters in the Los Angeles area. For two years, he held a
fellowship at Baltimore’s Centerstage theater and worked as a
dramaturg there on several productions, including Thomas Gibbon’s
Permanent Collection and David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow.
He also coordinated the theater’s First Look series, which
developed new work by writers such as Dan Dietz, Trisan Skylar,
Allison Moore and Josh Lefkowitz. In addition, he is the
co-founder of the Stray Dog Theater Ensemble, the author of the
first English translation of Francesco Vettori’s Italian comedy
Constanzia and the co-author of Standing Witness, a
theatrical adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite
Jest. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
APPLICANTS PLEASE INCLUDE
THE FOLLOWING:
1. A
statement of interest in the Theatre and why you want to write for
the Theatre (not TV or Movies).
2. A
statement of the goals you have set for yourself to achieve as a
Playwrights.
3. A
statement of the goals you have set for yourself to achieve from
this program.
4.
Submit a sample of your writing ability of no more than 8 pages.
It may be pages from a script, a short story, a novel, or
non-fiction. No Poetry, Please!!!
5.
Submit a resume and / or personal history or vita.
6.
Your name, mailing address, home phone number; business address
and business phone number.
PLEASE NOTE:
Do not send your only copy of materials, as no application
materials will be returned to the applicant.
INFORMATION QUICK CHECK LIST
1. Application Deadline: All
materials and applications must be
postmarked no later than May 19, 2008.
2. Notification of acceptance
into the Playwrights Program will be by May 23, 2008.
3. The Playwrights Program
commences May 31, 2008.
4. The Playwrights Program
meets every Saturday 10am to 1pm and two-sessions at 2pm to 5pm.
The sessions will take place
at:
The Los Angeles Theatre
Center
514 S. Spring St., 3rd
Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013
There is a $250 fee due on
May 26, 2008 securing a seat for participants in this program.
Please check your calendars to
ensure the resources and commitment of the Robey Theatre Company,
Aaron Henne and Dylan Southard are used efficiently. It is
important that attendance be consistent in order to gain maximum
rewards.
The meeting dates:
Saturday- May 31
Saturday- June 7, 14, 21,
28
Saturday- July 5, 12, 19,
26
Saturday- August
Please call (213) 489-7402 or
email robeytc@sbcglobal.net with any further inquiries/ questions.
*Submissions must be
postmarked no later than May 19, 2008
