The Playwrights Studio
YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO WRITE with Boni B. Alvarez
Sundays at 11am
June 9th- July 14th
The Echo Theater at the Atwater Village Theater – 3269 Casitas Ave, Los Angeles
A 6-week playwriting workshop led by Boni B. Alvarez. Sessions incorporate writing exercises to unearth the stories, characters, and drama that already exist in a playwright’s life. Participants will mine their lives and ‘what they already know’ in the writing of new pages, with the goal of completing the first draft of a new play by workshop’s end..
BONI B. ALVAREZ – His plays include DRIVEN, FIXED, NICKY, BLOODLETTING, DALLAS NON-STOP, DUSTY DE LOS SANTOS, and RUBY, TRAGICALLY ROTUND. His plays have been produced/developed at Playwrights’ Arena, Echo Theater Company, Coeurage Theatre Company, Center Theatre Group, Chalk Rep, Skylight Theatre Company, Moving Arts, Artists At Play, The Vagrancy, Los Angeles Theatre Center, EST/LA, The Blank, Second Generation (2g, NYC), InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia), and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been a Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission. He is a resident playwright with New Dramatists. Recent acting credits include Fixed at Echo Theater Company, Untitled Communion with Critical Mass Performance Group at REDCAT, and Bloodletting with Playwrights’ Arena. He has performed with American Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Golden Thread, Ma-Yi Theater Company, National Asian American Theatre Company, The Milagro Theater, La Mama, and PS 122. He holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA (Acting) from A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University, and an MFA (Dramatic Writing) from USC.