Date: July 30 - 31

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Price Per Student: $5 members, $15 non-members

Age: 18+

Workshop Description: Monologue writing is an incredible tool to tell your own personal story. In this two-day class participants will learn how to develop character, establish setting, set tone, develop backstory, and create the world of their monologues. The class includes readings, prompts, shared text, and group work. Participants should come to the class with an idea of what they would like to work on. This is a two-part class.

Materials Needed: Something to write with - journal, notebook, pen

About the Teaching Artist: Serena Norr is a writer, playwright, and founder of Let’s Make a Play, a playwriting program for kids and adults. Her plays have been performed at the Omaha Fringe Festival, White Plains Performing Arts Center, the New Deal Creative Arts Center, Westchester Collaborative Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Players Theater with the Rogue Theater Festival and the NYC Short Play Festival, The Tank, The Flea, the University of Alabama as well as various productions over Zoom.

Her plays have been published in the “Bittersweet Monologue Collection,” “ellipsis... literature & art Drama,” and the “Stonecoast Review.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Westchester Collaborative Theatre, participant in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (2021), the National Women’s Theatre Festival (WTF) Directing Program (2022) and Producing/Directing Program (2023), and The Workshop Theater (2023). For more information, visit http://www.serenanorr.com/