Update
I've been offered a position as part of the A-Team's Alley Theatre and will be going daily to meetings. For those of you who don't know the A-Teams purpose is to provide a better understanding of professional theatre. I will be volunteering as a usher during the winter break and hope to learn more about play writing through the guest speakers they have come to talk with us. In addition to that I've begun to write the actual script for my play though the end is still vague, how will this story end?
Also, I've decided to ask the following to be a part of my panel: Liz Thornton, Leon Payne, Rochelle Sanders and Cory Anglin. All these people will help me individually in some aspect to improve my project. Liz Thornton will help me with any grammatical issues and point out if anything I write sounds awkward. My mentor, Leon, is a visual person who could help me with stage directions if I intended on having the play performed. Rochelle Sanders works directly with the Alley Theatre and she was once a writer for the threatre. Mr. Cory Anglin will measure my creativeness and hopefully criticize my work like any critic.
I definitely need to take more time to do research on how to write in a playwright format for I tend to forget the story is not an ongoing conversation. Each time a character speaks something important follows it and and so on. So definitely need advice from a current writer on how to approach this problem. Also, I need to start hunting down for a place that could potentially hold the stage performance. Someone had suggested to me Lee College.
Can't wait to read your play [draft]!
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I'm glad to see that you are making progress! Volunteering at the Alley Theater as usher is going to give you the backstage experience and maybe immerse you more into the world of professional theater. I think its really good to not only see theater from the perspective of the writer but also the emotion that actors feel when making the words of a play come alive. Do have any an idea of what the plot of your story is going to be? Have you also set deadlines as to when you will have your acts ready to revise?
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