Your Memoir As Monologue Play Lab with Showcase There’s beauty and meaning to mine from your life story, and this workshop will help you artistically express what you’ve overcome and achieved, and share your experience through the medium of theatre. You’ll present your monologue drafts, have them read by guest actors, and discuss revisions. Elements of dramatic structure will be discussed, including conflict, plot, subtext, voice, narrative, the importance of set-up, and collaboration as a process. Each writer will present her monologue, performed by an actor, in the final showcase online, free and open to the public. No experience required
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023. Her poems, plays and images are published widely. For decades Kelly has taught a variety of creative writing workshops, including play labs with showcases for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kelly produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Reach her at kellydumar.com