In this theatrical intensive, we write and create our own exciting, hard-hitting one-person show, a segment of which is taken to actual performance in front of an audience at Omega Arts Week. Throughout the week, each of us is coached and rehearsed by experts in evoking and conveying authentic personal experience in our most authentic voice. By week’s end, each of us will have not just a plan for a full solo show or monologue, but also a thoroughly worked out and rehearsed segment of it that has been performed before an audience. Our coaches are actor and writer Bob Brader, whose solo show, Spitting In The Face of the Devil, went from an initial New York City run to the festival circuit; playwright and director Suzanne Bachner, who directs Brader’s shows, and whose most recent full-scale play, We Call Her Benny, based on her own life, was hailed by one New York critic as heralding “the future of theatre”; and memoirist Fred Poole, whose most recent book, Authentic Writing: A Memoir on Creating Memoir, is based on his own writing and the memoir writing program he founded. Fred Pool is also participating in the Memoir Festival: Writing From Life; July 16-18, 2010.Suzanne Bachner, MFA, author and director of many plays, saw her show, Circle, run for five months Off-Broadway. Bachner holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School and is an active member of The Dramatists Guild. jmtcinc.com Bob Brader has taken his monologues to New York City and such places as the Woodstock Memoir Festival and The London Fringe Festival. A member of the Dramatists Guild, he trained at The Stella Adler Conservatory. bob-brader.com Fred Poole writer, artist, and founder of the Authentic Writing Workshops, has been performing memoir onstage since 2002. authenticwriting.com |
