Stories High 2023 presents Playwriting Workshop with Molly Olis Krost
Learn the art of playwriting through our Stories High workshops, Bindlestiff’s longest running page-to-stage program.
Meets Tuesdays: Feb 21 & 28, Mar 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr 4 & 11
Virtual Meetings on Zoom
6:30pm - 8:30pm PT
Zoom login information will be sent prior to the start of the workshop.
Register here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTc2MTg3
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Molly Olis Krost (they/she) is a Filipina Jewish playwright splitting their time between the Bay Area and Seattle. Their plays explore the constant collisions of the human experience: collisions with others, with our society, and within ourselves. They incorporate ritual and faith, in a variety of forms, to manifest the emotions that often exist beyond words. They love to blur the line between reality and the fantastical and all the creative possibilities that can create for the artists they collaborate with. Their play NANAY was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Their play WHAT WE FOUND was a finalist for the National Jewish Play Contest and semifinalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
Their plays have been performed or are forthcoming at Magic Theatre, Z Space, San Francisco Playhouse, PlayGround, The Parsnip Ship, Awesome Theatre, Clutch Productions, MaArte Theatre Collective, Ain’t I A Woman Playfest, and SOMArts Cultural Center. They were awarded the Gita Specker First Place Award for Best Dramatic Monologue by the San Francisco Browning Society. Their writing has been published in {m}aganda magazine. They hold an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University and BA's in Classical Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. When not writing, Molly enjoys painting, baking, crafting, and misquoting song lyrics.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
In this workshop, we will aim to:
Discover why you write
In this workshop, you will tap into your voice as an artist. You will discover why it is that you want to write. You will be challenged to reflect inward, drawing on your experiences and imaginative interests, and write the stories you want to see out in the world.
Create pieces that experiment in playwriting
Through in-class exercises and take-home prompts, you will generate pieces in the genre of playwriting. At first, they may be short and rough. Throughout the process you will select pieces to revise and take through the editing process. What you create will not be perfect. You might not like everything you write. That is okay. What matters is the willingness to explore a craft you are unfamiliar with and the commitment to forming your own body of written work.
Explore what it means to read and respond as a writer.
In addition to being a group that writes, this will also be a group that reads. You will read published works by playwrights. You will read deeply into these pieces, taking your initial reactions and looking at how and why the writer was able to evoke this reaction through elements of craft
You will also read each other’s writing. We will discuss methods on how to respond to works that are in progress. Through this workshop we will form a community of artists that read and engage with each other’s work in order to help guide each other through the revision process.
INCOME BASED TUITION:
To make our workshops equitable and accessible we have a sliding scale income-based tuition fee. You will be able to choose your level at checkout.
$10 - recommended for participants with annual income of $25,000 or less
$40 - recommended for participants with annual income of $25,000-45,000
$90 - recommended for participants with annual income of $45,000-70,000
$180 - recommended for participants with annual income of $70,000-$100,000
$300 - recommended for participants with annual income of $100,000 or more
$400 - for participants who would like to support another person to attend this class