Dramatist Guild of America's Gary Garrison Joins Panel For Northeast Indiana Playwright Fest

The Civic Theatre is pleased to announce that Gary Garrison will be participating in the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre's first Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival as a guest panelist and to conduct a workshop and feedback discussions.

Gary Garrison is the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America - the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers headed by our nation's most honored dramatists. Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and full?time faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Garrison's plays include Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou? and When A Diva Dreams. This work has been featured at the City Theatre of Miami, Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre, African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer's Conference, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Inkwell and Source Theatre in D.C., Goddard College, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University, Southeast Theatre Conference, Northwest Theatre Conference and Boston Playwrights. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, The Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten?Minute Play, A More Perfect Ten and two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men. He is a the program coordinator for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center, the former National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival and recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.

Northeast Indiana Playwright Contest & Festival
In addressing the creative writing needs of the communities we serve, the Civic Theatre has established a playwright contest encouraging emerging and professional playwrights to submit their unproduced and unpublished one act or full-length plays to be presented as a reading or production at our Civic Off-Main location in June 4-13, 2010.

When the imagination is free to explore, not knowing any boundaries, and without intimidation, self-esteem and confidence matures in developing one's craft. Being a playwright requires soul searching, risk taking, courage, research, readings, feedback, and lots of rewriting that will hopefully lead to a fully staged production. The Civic Theatre continues to foster the creative potential that is within us as actors, dancers, singers and now as playwrights.

Deadline: September 1, 2009.
For more information and to download an application, visit www.fwcivic.org

 

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