workshop intensive WINTER 2020
The Workshop Intensive is a weekly writer’s group that runs for 8 weeks, with a group of writers, and two facilitators/dramaturges. Writers submit an unproduced play, along with a statement of rewrite goals, and are then selected by the artistic staff. The script can be a first draft, or only partially finished, or something that has been worked on many times. We are agnostic as to form and content.
Emily Adler
I am a playwright born and raised in New York City. My plays include: The Frog in the Flipper, Supernatural Playboy, Face, and Andromeda Speaks. I am a member of the Playwright-Director’s Workshop at The Actors Studio.
My YA novel, Sweet 15, was published by Marshall Cavendish and have also written scripts for film and television. I received my M.A. in Theatre in New York City at Hunter College.
TULIS MCCALL
Tulis McCall is an actor/writer/producer and performer. Her first one-person show, What Everywoman Knows, was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty, and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria. Her second, Running With Scissors - stories of contemporary urban lives - was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre. McCall is recipient of three UNITED SOLO™ Awards: 2015 Best Storytelling, 2016 Best Standup and 2017 Best One-Woman Show. Her current show, All In The Timing (formerly At Your Service) is being directed by Austin Pendleton. She recently appeared in How We Love/F*ck by Lillian Isabella at the Cherry Lane Theatre. McCall hosts Monologues and Madness, a monthly event of original works read by writers – also at Pangea. In addition, she is the founder and Editor of The Front Row Center, a New York theatre review site that is “Bold, Biased and Brief”.
Paul Rajeckas
Artist and educator, Paul Rajeckas, has been choreographing and performing movement theater since 1979. He has collaborated with many renowned artists including Jonathan Wolken, co-founder of Pilobolus Dance Theater and Neil Intraub of TheatreMoves. Paul co-authored NOTES TO THE MOTHERLAND with George Chieffet which premiered Off-Broadway at the E59th Street Theater in 2004 and was later nominated for a Fringe First Award. His work with Neil INtraub has been supported by organizations such as the NEA, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The New York Times Foundation, Arts Matters Inc., the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the Armani Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation.
Elyssa Nicole Trust
Elyssa Nicole Trust is an actor, playwright, singer, and children’s book author. Her goal as an artist is to contribute to inclusive storytelling that sparks conversation, breaks barriers, challenges the status quo, and defies stereotypes. Elyssa runs a monthly play-reading series for emerging playwrights through her theatre company, Ahava Theatre. She is the co-host of the Creative People Podcast coming out in May 2020. www.elyssanicoletrust.com
Gillian Beth Durkee
Gillian Beth Durkee (she/her) is a Seattle-born playwright/screenwriter and an alumna of EST/Youngblood. Credits include EST, Project Y, The Bellwether Project, The Tank, Current Harbor, Sam French OOB Festival, PTP/NYC, In the Water Theatre Company, Tiny Rhino, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Awards: Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting grant recipient, Sanguine Project Playwright finalist, two-time O’Neill NPC semi-finalist. BA: Middlebury College. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. Gillian also sings a cappella with Treble NYC.
Kathryn Paulsen
Kathryn Paulsen’s play “Somewhere Waiting for You” was a finalist for the Julie Harris Award and in other competition, including Henley Rose in 2015, and had a staged reading at the Workshop Theater in 2010. Her neo-Lysistrata “The Ultimate Weapon” was presented as a staged reading at Planet Connections 2013. For playwriting, she’s received resident grants at the MacDowell Colony and Ledig House. Her prose and poetry have appeared in publications from Canada to Ireland to Australia.
Laura Rohrman
Laura Rohrman is a California born theater artist. Full-length plays include: Reporter Girl about the life of her grandmother, Dale Messick, who created the comic strip Brenda Starr Reporter in 1940 (O’Neill Semi-Finalist, Weissberger Award Nominee, Princess Grace Finalist, AFF Second Rounder, Brick Comic Book Theater Festival), My Life As You (Finalist Playwrights First Award, Shelter Studios, Producers Club), Hoboken (Hollywood Fringe Festival). One-act plays include: Below 14th, Without and He Says His Name Is John -- all finalists for the Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival. Monologues from My Life As You and Hoboken are published by Smith and Kraus and Applause Books (upcoming 2020). MFA: Actors Studio Drama School/New School for Drama. https://newplayexchange.org/users/1786/laura-rohrman
NATE FOSTER
Nate is a playwright, performer, and dramaturg whose work focuses on using intimacy to explore the world around us. He is a 2017 Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Fellow, a 2018 Cape Cod Theatre Project New Play Development Fellow and a 2019 New Work Apprentice at The Public Theater. He was the recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Ken Ludwig Young Playwright Award. His plays have been seen at New York Theatre Festival, The Brick Theatre in Brooklyn, The University of Northern Colorado, Fort Collins Fringe Festival and Pharmacy Theatre.
Ruthie Rado
Ruthie Rado (she/her) is a theatremaker originally from DC. Her play, Spills, had a staged reading at the Kennedy Center, and was produced by Who What Where Theater Collective. Ruthie was Artistic Director of Pocket Change Theatre Company, a devised theatre-for-young audiences troupe, from 2014-2018. Performance credits include: backup singer for Patti LuPone in concert, Melody in Be a Good Little Widow. Upcoming: Pigeon Trap at Womxn on Fire Festival at Keegan Theatre.
Jona Tarlin
Jona Tarlin is a Brooklyn based playwright and screenwriter from Silicon Valley. His plays include: Lost Teeth, Down Range, and In Antarctica, Where it is Very Warm. His work has been presented by New Works Lab Stratford, Exquisite Corpse Company, IRT Theater, Wide-Eyed Productions, Caps Lock Theatre, the One-Minute Play Festival, The Playground Experiment, The Brick (winner, 2014 Winter One-Act Festival), Amios NYC, New York Madness, Blowout Theater, and Forward Theater Company of Madison, WI. He is a two time semi-finalist for both the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the O'Neill National Playwright Festival. He is a Heideman Award Finalist for his short play, 100 Strokes of the Brush. His short film, Compound is currently in development with Anchor Light. He is the recipient of the 2008 Lipkin Prize for Playwriting from Sarah Lawrence College where he received a BA in Theater. MFA: Hunter College