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Towne Street Theatre Workshops: Writing a 10-Minute Play with Mildred Lewis
June 25, 2024 • 6:30 pm - August 6, 2024 • 8:30 pm
$75 – $175
Towne Street Theatre presents
Writing A 10-Minute Play with Mildred Lewis
This course teaches the fundamentals of playwriting: character, plot, character, setting, genre, and formatting. Each student will complete a rough draft of a ten-minute play. No experience is required. Students do not need any specialized software. No textbook required. Readings will be provided.
7 Tuesday Evenings:
June 25th – August 6th • 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Virtual Classes via Zoom
MAX: 10 Students
TST NON-MEMBERS: $175
MEMBERS: $75
Who is Mildred Lewis?
An MFA and MA graduate of UCLA, MILDRED INEZ LEWIS writes and directs for theater, film and the digital space. A Dramatists Guild member, she belongs to the Antaeus, EST-LA, PlayGround-LA and Towne Street Theatre writing groups. She is an associate artist with the Rogue Artists Ensemble. She has been commissioned by A Different Myth (Asheville, NC) and a Lucille Lortel/Harlem9/National Black Theatre collaboration.
In 2022, her full-length comedy THE MUSEUM ANNEX, an homage to George C. Wolfe’s THE COLORED MUSEUM opened at Central Works (Berkeley, CA). BONWIT TELLER’S REVENGE appeared at the Workshop Theatre. Earlier productions include JUKED presented by Towne Street Theatre at Noise Now!
Her one-act plays have been produced across the country and in the United Kingdom where she was a British Theatre Challenge finalist. In 2022, WE JUMP BROOM was read by Towne Street Theatre, was a Best of PlayGround-LA winner, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival finalist and the Bradford Gromelski Jury Award from Fusion Theatre (Albuquerque, NM). Her one-act plays have been published by LazyBee (UK), NextStage Press and Applause Books’ Best 10-minute Plays collections.