S156. What Playwrights Bring to the Composition Classroom

Room 504, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, April 2, 2016
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

While they may be in the minority, playwrights also teach composition classes. Four playwright-teachers discuss the ways that their pedagogy is informed by their dramatic practice, and the ways that the things playwrights attend to—dialogue, stage images, bodies in space—are uniquely suited to help student writers learn the ways of academic writing. The panel includes conversation and sharing of practical techniques for engaging students using playwriting practices.


Participants

Moderator:

Normandy Sherwood is a playwright and a writing teacher. Her collaborative theater company, the OBIE award-winning National Theater of the United States of America, has presented its works all over the USA and abroad. She teaches expository writing at New York University.

Sam Chanse is a New York-based playwright and performer, A Sundance Ucross Playwright Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and author of Lydia’s Funeral Video. She recived her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and in musical theater writing from NYU’s Tisch.

Eliza Bent is a performer / playwright / journalist.

Benjamin Gassman is a playwright, essayist, and language lecturer in expository writing at New York University. His plays have been developed and produced at 3LD, E. 13th St. Rep, The Bushwick Starr, the Jewish Plays Project, and Dixon Place in New York. He has been a resident at Yaddo.

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