Led by Jon Padgett.
Page to Stage is a guided program to help you turn a story from an idea to a complete work ready to be performed at a live reading. Each quarter we release the theme of which all of our events for those three months will be centered.
This period’s theme is Spooky Stories! Paranormal, mystery, horror, and more. If it can be told around a campfire on a cold autumn night, it’s a spooky story.
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson are some spine-chilling stories we’re loving. For a more local flavor, you should check out Stay Out of New Orleans by P. Curran and Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.
Over the next three months, we will work to get our pieces stage-ready. At this workshop, we will lead use prompts to jostle some spooky story ideas out of your head and onto the page.
This event is free and open to all writers. No RSVP necessary.
About Jon Padgett
Jon Padgett is a professional–though lapsed–ventriloquist who lives in New Orleans. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Grimscribe Press. Padgett’s short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of the Year by Rue Morgue Magazine.
Padgett’s voice has also become synonymous with the works of Thomas Ligotti. Padgett has lent his voice to numerous Thomas Ligotti works, including the recently released Penguin Random House audio version of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe and various Cadabra Record releases, “The Bungalow House,” “The Red Tower,” “The Small People,” “Gas Station Carnivals,” “The Clown Puppet,” “Pictures of Apocalypse,” “Mrs. Rinaldi’s Angel,” and others.