Writing from The Heart: 12 Singaporean Playwrights

Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

12 Singaporean Playwrights

I now have 13 drafts of one-act plays from 12 emerging Singaporean playwrights. I have been tasked by their Singaporean theater company to dramaturg these plays "from page to stage." Our working deadline is December 31, 2014.

At the moment, I await approval from six of the 12 playwrights for me to dramaturg their plays on this blog, for everyone to see.

These playwrights were among the participants of my "Writing from The Heart" workshop held in Singapore in the middle of this year.

The objectives of this long-range project are:

--to develop playwrights whom the theater company can introduce to the public as a new wave of Singaporean playwrights.
--to develop works for production.
--to produce the works of the playwrights in trilogies, whether as full productions or as readings.
--to guide the playwrights in developing and polishing their works from the writing phase through actual production.