Playwriting Workshop by Chiori Miyagawa

November 14, 2016

Television, Cinema and Visual Arts Department of the American University of Central Asia is pleased to invite you to Playwriting Workshop by Chiori Miyagawa.

Transformations of Theatrical Realities:

Conceiving contemporary stories inspired by historical plays

This is a theatrical exploration workshop. Students (10-12 students, 2 hours) will read a short play in class together; have a discussion about our personal responses to the play, the theme, characters, and cultural settings. We will then brainstorm how these could be made relevant to the contemporary time.  There will be short writing exercises and sharing of the students’ spontaneous original writing.

Chiori Miyagawa is a New York City-based playwright. She was born in Japan and emigrated to the U.S. when she was fifteen. Chiori’s plays have been produced by off-Broadway theaters, at renowned performance spaces in NYC and regionally. Twelve of her plays are collected in two books: Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays by Seagull Books and America Dreaming and Other Plays by NoPassposrt Press. She is a recipient of many fellowships including Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship in Italy and Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, American Theater Magazine, Huffington Post and other publications. She is a recent alumnus of New Dramatists and teaches playwriting in the Theater and Performance department at Bard College.

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