Includes

• A director and up to 4 actors who receive small stipends.

• 2 rehearsals, one week apart, allowing for rewrites.

• 1 full private readthrough following the 2nd rehearsal.

• On the Zoom Meeting platform (through 2021)

Intended for

• Complete scripts which would benefit from a more extensive artistic engagement beyond a simple table reading.

Objectives for this Format

The workshop format goes one step beyond the standard table reading, offering the playwright the opportunity to:

• hear their script aloud;

• observe how other theatre artists understand and interact with their story and the characters within the story; and

• spend a week engaged in an intensive rewriting process based on insight from the rehearsals and feedback from other theater artists.

Includes

• A director and up to 5 actors who are compensated. Playwright receives a small royalty.

• 4 rehearsals over 2 to 3 weeks.

• 1 public performance in-person at the MLK FAME Center Studio Space and including audience participation and a recording of the performance using the Zoom platform.

Intended for

• Complete scripts which have been through a more extensive artistic development process and would benefit from a public performance.

Objectives for this format

The staged-reading format offers the playwright an opportunity to:

• learn how their script is handled in a basic production format by a director and cast.

• collaborate with a director and cast to answer questions and guide the interpretation of their script.

• witness the impact on their story of basic production elements of costume, virtual backgrounds or basic concrete scenic design, and music/sound effects, as determined by the director.

• evaluate the impact of their story through feedback from audience members as well as other theatre artists.