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Brush Up on Venom & Surprise

1 of 4 Playwriting Intensives offered to professional and new playwrights (or screenwriters) who want to brush up on Venom & Surprise (and later an intensives on Diagnostics & Dramaturgy) in order to start new projects or move forward with what they are working on already.

Some people only write when they have an idea, but the truth is: we are all full of ideas! There are a few secrets to getting out of our own way as writers, so if you've ever felt as if your work has not been quite as bold as you'd like it to be, this session will be a shot of courage! How can we surprise ourselves in our writing practice? How can we get to the meat of what we want it all to mean?

Emma Goldman-Sherman earned her MFA from the University of Iowa and has had work produced in NYC at CSV by All Out Arts Inc, and by Manhattan Theatre Source, 1MPF, the Circle Rep Lab, New Georges, The Women's Project, and Take One Prods.; regionally with The Every 28 Hours Play; in San Francisco at Golden Thread as part of the ReOrient Festival of plays about the Middle East; in LA with EST; in Kansas City at The Hall Gallery; in London at Canal Cafe Theatre and in Zagreb at the Yunus Emre Enstitusu. Her work has been developed by Dixon Place, New Circle Theatre Co., The Millay Colony for the Arts, Ragdale, and twice at WordBridge where she returned as a dramaturg. She has taught and worked as a dramaturg for The Great Plains Theatre Conference and many others. She is the founder and Resident Dramaturg at the 29th Street Playwrights Collective where she runs the Write Now Workshop. She also teaches for New York Writers Workshop and others.