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Servicing the Successful Playwright of today & in the New Millennium
THE WORKSHOP IN ITS HISTORIC 34th ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF EXISTENCE
The Workshop, founded in 1973 as a memorial to the late great actor/director Frank Silvera, by playwright/director Garland Lee Thompson, with actor Morgan Freeman, actress/director Billie Allen, and journalist/critic Clayton Riley, opened its first reading and critique of a new play on October 22, 1973, at the Martinique Theatre in New York City.
The originally concept was a mystery and a surprise to most theatre professionals, who did not fully understand the need and urgency of an idea "whose time had come."
There were few arenas during the beginning of the Seventies in New York and the country where new playwrights of all colors could have the opportunity to expose their new works in the positive light and showcase of an intense critical analysis, with a focus on the further development of the playwright's craft and skill.
Within a month of Monday night readings & critiques, the Workshop had quickly and firmly established itself as "the place to be," on Monday evening in New York City.
Truly, it became so, if a playwright, director or actor was truly interested in being apart of the latest and most creative new and known writers, such as Pulitzer Prize winners, Charles Fuller, Charles Gordone, along with poet/playwright Ntozake Shange, Richard Wesley, Ed Bullins, Charles (OyamO) Gordon, Larry Neal and more than 5,000 other new playwrights (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), who have passed through the Workshop's first 33 years of historic productivity.
THE BEST BARGAIN IN TOWN FOR CRAFT CLASSES IN PLAYWRIGHTING AND NEW COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES
This important new project come to the Workshop, courtesy of the Institute For Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia.
"WHERE ARE THE PLAYWRIGHTS"
New York and America, we say:
"Arts is healing and healing is an art!"
Yes, the Workshop is definitely preparing to return to classes in the basics of playwright craft. For more information, call the Workshop office at (212)281-8832 tel., (212) 281-8839 fax, and E-mail: playrite@earthlink.net Website http://www.fsww.org. Mailing address: P.O. Box 1791, Manhattanville Station, New York, NY 10027
E-mail us at playrite@earthlink.net or call us at: (212) 281-8832 Photographs by Jim Belfon of the Photographic Center of Harlem