2019 FRI 6 SEPT THROUGH_LINES__ SAT 7 SEPT 2 DAYS_5 WORKSHOPS_5 CONVERSATIONS_ DAY 1_FRIDAY SESSION 1 LUNCH SESSION 1 continued SESSION 2 9.30am-12.30pm 12.30-1.15pm 1.15-4pm 4.30pm-6pm CONVERSATION 1. WORKSHOP 1. WORKSHOP 1. DRAMATURGICAL KICK-IN-THE-PANTS HOW DO I GET MY PLAY PROGRAMMED? DRAMATURGICAL KICK-IN-THE-PANTS continued KATHRYN BURNETT FACILITATES WITH IAIN SINCLAIR A PANEL OF ARTISTIC DIRECTORS, WITH IAIN SINCLAIR $120 PRESENTERS & PROGRAMMERS !DRINKS! YOUR DAY YOUR FREE / REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL COFFEE STARTS HERE STARTS LUNCH PROVIDED LUNCH DAY 2_SATURDAY PICK_A_PATH Choose your own journey across the day. $80 FOR THE DAY SESSION 1 SESSION 2 LUNCH SESSION 3 SESSION 4 9.30-10.30am 10.45am-12.45pm 12.45-1.15pm 1.15-3.15pm 3.30-4.30pm CONVERSATION 2. WORKSHOP 4. CONVERSATION 4. BUILDING COMMUNITY WORKSHOP 2. DRAMATURGICAL PRONOUNS + AHI KARUNAHARAN GETTING STARTED BEST PRACTICE DAEDAE TEKORONGA-WAKA / TANYA MUAGUTUTI’A WITH FIONA SAMUEL WITH STUART HOAR / OTHER PANELLISTS TO BE / JO RANDERSON & ALLISON HORSLEY ANNOUNCED COFFEE CONVERSATION 5. !DRINKS! CONVERSATION 3. WORKSHOP 5. START HERE START WORST CASE-BEST CASE WORKSHOP 3. TOO TOO FUNNY: COFFEEEEEEEE LUNCH PROVIDED LUNCH PLAN YOUR DAY PLAN YOUR MOVING FORWARD SCRIPT EDITING WRITING COMEDY SCENARIO VICTOR RODGER / JOHANNA SMITH FASITUA AMOSA / WITH IAIN SINCLAIR WITH DAVE ARMSTRONG / ROY WARD PHILIPPA CAMPBELL / & JAMIE McCASKILL GARY HENDERSON 2019 DAY 1 THROUGH_LINES__ FRI 6 SEPT WORKSHOP 1 DRAMATURGICAL IAIN SINCLAIR Iain has had a rich and successful career as one of Australia’s KICK-IN-THE-PANTS leading directors and dramaturgs. He was Playwriting Australia’s WITH IAIN SINCLAIR first resident dramaturg and has been instrumental in providing FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER dramaturgy services to many of Australia’s leading writers for the 9.30AM-4PM / $120 stage including Kate Mulvany [The Seed], Tom Holloway [Beyond APPLY TO SHANE BOSHER: [email protected] the Neck], Steve Rodgers [King of Pigs] and Angus Cerini [The Bleeding Tree]. Iain has also been involved in many developments “Playwrights are the parent material of our storytelling ecosystem. Without them and working alongside indigenous playwrights and dramaturgs. Iain without the complex provocation that their plays provide, our art form cannot grow to was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in New Writing Theatre in its full potential, let alone renew itself.” _Iain Sinclair the US and UK and he graduated with distinction from the RADA Master Program and Kings College, London. A truth seeker and a text master, Iain leads a practical workshop riffing around the biochemistry of story, and micro and macro-dramaturgy. Inspired by bold new thinking, Internationally, he continues his work as a dramaturg working with Iain will unpack how to identify and remedy early draft challenges like pacing, stakes, companies such as New Dramatists and Lincoln Center in New York, hidden monologues and spoken subtext. Built for writers, dramaturgs and directors, Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Out of Joint, the Royal Shakespeare this workshop detonates dramatic atoms to reveal the invisible ink that holds dramatic Company, the Royal Court and National Theatre in London. writing together. Iain is an award-winning theatre director specialising in new work and American classics. He has directed celebrated major “Iain Sinclair is without question one of the country’s top theatre minds. Every exercise productions for STC, Belvoir, MTC and Queensland Theatre, and exploration is driven by a deep respect for the writer’s vision. He has a fierce working with leading artists such as Cate Blanchett and Max curiosity that is infectious and inspiring.” _Australian Workshop Participant Stafford-Clark. His production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge is currently playing its third return season in Sydney. Iain is chair of the Nick Enright Award for Playwriting at the NSW CONVERSATION 1 Premier’s Literary Awards. HOW DO I GET MY KATHRYN BURNETT Kathryn is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, public PLAY PROGRAMMED? speaker and writing coach. Her two plays Mike and Virginia and FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER Bowled Over have been respectively produced by Circa Theatre 4.30-6PM / FREE / REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL and ATC. Her prolific screen credits include Fresh Eggs, The Cul de Sac, The Cult, Amazing Extraordinary Friends and The Strip. She is Artistic Directors, Presenters and Programmers from around New Zealand discuss currently working on a new sci-fi series for HBO. the shifting landscape and their approaches to putting together an annual schedule of work. Facilitated by Kathryn Burnett. 2019 DAY 2 THROUGH_LINES__ SAT 7 SEPT WORKSHOP 2 FIONA SAMUEL GETTING STARTED FIONA SAMUEL graduated from Toi Whakaari in 1980 and started WITH FIONA SAMUEL her working life as an actor. Her many stage plays include The SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER Wedding Party, Lashings of Whipped Cream: A Session with a 10.45AM-12.45PM / PART OF DAY 2 REGISTRATION FEE Teenage Dominatrix, One Flesh, The Liar's Bible and Ghost Train, Stimulate your imagination and generate new play ideas with this kickstarter which won the NZ Writers Guild Award for Best Play in 2010. for emerging playwrights. Learn how to navigate pitfalls like procrastination and A prolific screenwriter, her trifecta of female-driven dramas have self-doubt and really get that new play going. With expert storyteller Fiona Samuel won multiple awards, high ratings and audience acclaim. Fiona guiding you, invention will be the password. wrote and directed Piece of my Heart and Bliss and wrote the screenplay for Consent. She has also written for Outrageous Fortune, Nothing Trivial, Agent Anna and the Australian hit Love Child, among many others. Fiona was awarded the Arts Foundation of NZ Laureate Award 2012. In the first half of 2018, Fiona taught the MA in Creative Writing for playwrights and screenwriters at the International Institute of Modern Letters. WORKSHOP 3 IAIN SINCLAIR SCRIPT EDITING Check out Iain’s bio on the previous page. WITH IAIN SINCLAIR SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 10.45AM-12.45PM / PART OF DAY 2 REGISTRATION FEE This is brain food. Learn how to find the essential motive forces that make a play go forward. Get rid of all the faff and overwriting and distil a play down to its most essential and impactful form. 2019 DAY 2 THROUGH_LINES__ SAT 7 SEPT WORKSHOP 4 DRAMATURGICAL STUART HOAR Stuart is a playwright, dramaturg, radio dramatist and novelist. BEST PRACTICE Following the production of his first playSquatter in 1987, he WITH STUART HOAR & ALLISON HORSLEY became Playwright in Residence at the Mercury Theatre and SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER was awarded the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 1988. He 1.15-3.15PM / PART OF DAY 2 REGISTRATION FEE has also held posts as the Literary Fellow at Auckland University, the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago, Writer in How do you make sure the feedback lands with the playwright? Two of our leading Residence at the University of Canterbury and the Meridian dramaturgs discuss approaches to preparation of a script, working in the rehearsal Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellow. room, and the other roles a dramaturg might undertake in a creative process. His most recent plays include Rendered, The Great Art War with Philip Norman, Bright Star and Pasefika, which won the Adam NZ Play Award in 2010. As a dramaturg, Stuart has worked with Briar Grace-Smith, Roger Hall, Jess Sayer, Gary Henderson, Mei-Lin Hansen, D. F. Mamea, Dean Hewison, Miriama McDowell and Rob Mokaraka. He is also currently the Script Advisor for Playmarket and is a lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University. ALLISON HORSLEY Allison has worked as a dramaturg, literary manager, and university professor in the United States and New Zealand. She has developed specialities in new play and musical development through her work as Dramaturg for the Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference and the Literary Manager for La Jolla Playhouse, which premiered Broadway’s Jersey Boys and Dr. Zhivago, on both of which Allison served as dramaturg. Under commission from Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she has translated all of Chekhov’s major plays. She has created bespoke translations for adaptation by Tony Award-winning playwright Stephen Karam: the Broadway adaptation of The Cherry Orchard with Diane Lane and the indie-film version of The Seagull with Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan. She earned her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. In Aotearoa, she has worked as the Literary Manager for The Court Theatre and as the Script Advisor for Playmarket. 2019 DAY 2 THROUGH_LINES__ SAT 7 SEPT WORKSHOP 5 TOO TOO FUNNY: DAVE ARMSTRONG Dave has won the award for Best NZ Play at the Chapman Tripp WRITING COMEDY Theatre Awards three times, for Niu Sila, The Tutor and Where We WITH DAVE ARMSTRONG & JAMIE McCASKILL Once Belonged. His many plays have enjoyed sellout seasons across SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER the country. They include Le Sud, King and Country, The Motor 1.15-3.15PM / PART OF DAY 2 REGISTRATION FEE Camp, Kings of the Gym, Anzac Eve, A Christmas Carol and Central. Funny is hard. But maybe it doesn’t have to be. Two of our comedy greats chew the Co-creator of the television comedy Seven Periods with Mr. fat on how they make funny funnier. In this practical workshop, you’ll learn how to Gormsby, his other screen credits include Spies and Lies, Billy, find your comedic voice, how to mine your own life for comedic inspiration, how to The Semisis, Spin Doctors and Bro’town. Dave was the 2007 find the funny in the everyday. These two chaps will give you tools so that you can Victoria University Writer in Residence.