PlayGround offers a series of monthly two-hour playwriting Intensives for emerging professionals, led by PlayGround artistic staff and guest lecturers drawn from the Bay Area's most distinguished playwrights and other theatre professionals. Writers may sign up for individual or multiple classes as each is intended as a stand-alone program. Classes take place on selected Monday nights, 7-9PM, at A.C.T. Studios, 30 Grant Avenue in San Francisco , except as noted. Registration: $35 ($40 at the door).
To register for individual classes, click here.
March 3, 2008
INSIDE THE PLAYGROUND PROCESS, PART II
with PlayGround Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann
It's one last chance to learn all you ever wanted to know about the PlayGround creative process, script selection and the answers to all your other burning questions - straight from the Artistic Director's mouth! Registrants will be invited to submit in advance a list of questions and subjects they wish to be addressed, with those receiving the most votes forming the basis for this final class of the 2007-08 Intensives.
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Suggested Reading: Best of PlayGround series (1997-2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Jim Kleinmann is co-founder of PlayGround and has served as its Artistic Director since 1996. For PlayGround, he has directed more than seventy-five short works as well as all of the audio plays recorded for KQED's The Writers' Block. As Artistic Director, he has developed more than 450 original short plays by nearly 150 emerging playwrights over the past 14 years, as well as 18 full-length plays commissioned by PlayGround. A veteran arts administrator, Jim received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He got his start in theatre at Brown University, where he founded and performed in Brown's first improvisational theatre, IMPROVidence.