GLVWG
WORKSHOPS 2007/2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Writing Workshop - Improv for Writers - Mark McKenna
Mark McKenna, actor, teacher, director, and storyteller will lead a 2 hour workshop, during which he will provide a hands on test drive of different theatrical and acting devices that writers can apply to generate material, enhance the imagination and explore story from a different perspective. Absolutely no performing experience required. Willingness to walk in another's shoes desired.
Mark McKenna was an ensemble member at Touchstone Theatre from 1986 – February of 2008. He became the company’s Artistic Director in 1994 and the Producing Artistic Director in 2003. He is a graduate of the Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris `90 -`92, majored in theatre at the University of New Hampshire and trained with Herbert Bergof in New York and Carla Belver in Philadelphia. In 1990 he was the recipient of a PA Council on the Arts Individual Artistic Development Grant to study the process of the actor-creator in Europe. As an actor and/or director, Mr. McKenna has been a co-creator of over 40 original Touchstone productions and collaborations. Most recently, he played the title role in Touchstone’s original adaptation Don Quixote of Bethlehem, the role of Charlie in Marie Jones’ Stones in His Pockets, directed/conceived Touchstone’s Production Ouch! Three Takes on Healthcare and directed The Christmas City Follies VIII. He is currently director of Touchstone’s original community-based production written by Carpetbag Theater’s Linda Parris-Baily, a collaboration with Ysaye Barnwell and Peggy Pettitt, Muhlenberg College historians and community members to reveal and document the black experience in the Lehigh Valley through story circles, song gatherings and the development of an oral history archive.
$10 for members and $15 for non-members.
To register, email jerrywaxler@yahoo.com, 215-536-0533 or mail a check to:
Greater Lehigh Valley Writer's Group
c/o
Jerry Waxler
PO Box 99
Quakertown, PA 18951
