“Down to the Wood” with Andrea Scott
February 18-20, 2022
This workshop will be about taking an idea, a sketch of an idea and turning it into the beginning of a first draft. Using images, themes, and motivation (which all start with character), Andrea will help a playwright take that spark of an idea into a story that can live on stage. You can join this workshop regardless of where your piece is in progress – an idea, some scenes or a full draft!
UPDATED! Sessions will happen remotely Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. Weekend ends with virtual public reading where Andrea Scott reads from her own work and the workshop participants can share excerpts of their work, as they feel comfortable.
Schedule:
Friday, February 18 6-9 pm AST
Saturday, February 19 1-4 pm AST
Sunday, February 20 1-4 pm AST
Reading event: Sunday. February 20 7-9 pm AST (participant reading of work is not mandatory)
Cost is only $20*.
*If the cost is prohibitive to taking this workshop, please reach out to PARC and arrangements will be made for you to attend.
Register for the workshop here.
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This workshop is happening in partnership with San Family Productions and supported by funds from the NS Cultural and Youth Activities Program.
About Andrea Scott
Andrea’s play, Eating Pomegranates Naked, won the RBC Arts Professional Award, and named Outstanding Production at the 2013 SummerWorks Festival. Better Angels: A Parable won the SummerWorks Award for Production and was published in 2018. Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife, won the Cayle Chernin Award for theatre ran at SummerWorks in 2016. 2019 saw her co-written play with Nick Green, Every Day She Rose wow audiences at Buddies in Bad Times. Her play about Viola Desmond, Controlled Damage, had its sold-out world premiere at Neptune Theatre in 2020 and will open at The Grand Theatre in 2022. She won the Magee Diversity Screenwriter’s Award for her first TV script, Dust to Dust. Her dark comedy Bad Habits landed her a job as the Story Editor on The Porter (BET/CBC), which she followed up with snagging a spot pitching to Netflix with her supernatural drama Cassidy Must Die. 2021 saw her winning $10,000 from Amazon and the Indigenous Screen Office, pitching her coming-of-age dramedy DONE! She’s currently working in the writers room on the 15th season of Murdoch Mysteries.