A workshop led by Lisa D’Amour.
Whether we are writing plays, novels or short stories, we strive to create characters who are vividly defined through action and speech. We want our characters to be both memorable and legible - to pop out of our story lines and be clear and beguiling to our audience or reader.
We also what the characters in our stories to be distinct from one another — with clear desires that drive them on their quest.
In this brief workshop, we will focus on the way characters speak, and the rhythm of what drives them, exploring musicality, pace, silence, speed and more.
In the process, we will explore how using these more “external” character cues can draw our audiences and readers into our characters deepest desires.
This workshop will accept 12 attendees. RSVP will open on Friday, April 4.
About Lisa D’Amour
Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, educator and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans. She came up in a world of ritual, activism, group spectacle and care, all of which continue to thrive in her work. . Recent work with her company PearlDamour includes Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown (ART Theater, currently touring), MILTON, a performance rooted in 5 U.S. towns named Milton, and How to Build a Forest, an 8-hour performance installation. Lisa's play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. Her play Airline Highway ran in the Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway in 2015. and she is the recipient of an Alpert Award for the Arts, a Steinberg Playwright Award and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Lisa received her MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin, and her BA from Millsaps College. She lives in New Orleans, where she is on the leadership team for Trinity City Comics.