How to Build a Playwright: Hands-On Workshop (Virtual)

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In this hands-on masterclass, acclaimed playwright Rachel Bublitz shares exercises, prompts, and creative strategies from her new book How to Build a Playwright in Three Acts, designed to help writers at any stage develop their voice, strengthen their craft, and move their work forward.

Rachel Bublitz is an award winning and internationally produced playwright known for telling stories about women, and creating exciting new work for young performers. Her play Funny, Like An Abortion received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Mile Square Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, and The VORTEX. She received the prestigious Will Glickman Award for the best premiere play in the San Francisco Bay Area for her full-length Ripped. Her play The Night Witches has received over fifty productions worldwide. Rachel was recognized as a top emerging female playwright in the Bay Area, receiving the June Anne Baker Prize. Her work has been produced at theaters and schools across the country, as well as Canada, England, Ireland, and Australia. Rachel moved to Salt Lake City in 2016. Since her move she’s been produced by Good Company Theatre (Ripped), and was named the resident playwright of the Egyptian YouTheatre. She has developed her plays with Salt Lake Acting Company (Ripped, Burst, and Let’s Fix Andy), Plan-B Theatre (Mommy Dances With The Devil and Tip Top Triangle), The University of Utah (Hear Us Roar), Utah Shakespeare Festival (Burst), as well as multiple commissions from the Egyptian YouTheatre (Cheerleaders VS. Aliens, The Night Witches, and The Summer I Howled). Nationally Rachel has been produced by Alleyway Theatre (Burst), Adjusted Realists (Red Days), Alchemy Theatre (The Book Women and Cheerleaders VS. Aliens), Relative Theatrics (Burst), Loud Fridge Theatre Group (Ripped), American Lives Theatre (Funny, Like An Abortion), Barrington Stage Company (My Body), Fat Theatre Project (Funny, Like An Abortion), as well as many other theaters. She’s also had two commissions from publisher Stage Partners; The Book Women and The Hardy Girls. Her work is published with Dramatic Publishing (The Night Witches and Burst), Playscripts (Biz Town, Ghost House, and Operation Chicken Takeover), Stage Partners (The Book Women, The Hardy Girls, Of Serpents & Sea Spray, and The Red House Monster), Pioneer Drama Service (Cheerleaders VS. Aliens), YouthPLAYS (The Summer I Howled), Brooklyn Publishers (Blood & Sequins), as well as others.

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