9th Annual Women’s Work Festival: WORKING WITH DRAMATURGY with Lois Brown & Emma Tibaldo

WORKING WITH DRAMATURGY with Lois Brown & Emma Tibaldo

Wednesday, March 4, 2-5 PM

Registration required, $20/$10 student (*advance price $10/5, paid by Feb 27/15)

LSPU Hall Cox & Palmer Second Space

3 Victoria St, St. John’s, NL  *limited enrollment

This workshop is for every artist who has wanted to work with a dramaturge on the development of a new work.  Lois and Emma have worked together extensively at Playwrights Workshop Montreal and will take us through a short practicum where participants are placed in the dramaturgy of an actual play and we discuss the questions that arise as the play is read and discussed.  This workshop is useful for writers, actors, directors- almost anyone involved in the writing and development process.

Emma Tibaldo is a graduate of Concordia’s Theatre Department and the National Theatre School’s directing program where she continues to be a guest artist. She is the Artistic and Executive Director of Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal and a founding member of Talisman Theatre for whom she has most recently directed Billy (The Days of Howling) by Fabien Cloutier, translated by Nadine Desrochers. She also sings in the family band The Tibaldos.

Lois Brown is a seventh generation Newfoundlander. She graduated from The University of Alberta in 1977 with an undergrad degree in Drama and returned to St. John’s, where she has maintained a cross-disciplinary practice, working in theatre, dance and film.  In 2004, Lois was short-listed for the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize and received The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from The Canada Council for achievement by an outstanding mid-career Canadian theatre artist. She is the recipient of an Artist Achievement Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Participants are asked to pre-register for all events (including free sessions, to reserve a seat.) Spaces are limited.