Have dreams of writing a new play? Here’s your chance with ATI’s DIY Playwriting Workshop

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Actors Theatre of Indiana (ATI) announces the third annual DIY Playwriting Workshop, part of the company’s LAB Series which focuses on developing and supporting new plays and playwrights.

Registrants will join accomplished playwright, educator, and new works expert Andrew Kramer as he provides writing prompts, guidance, and inspiration for participants to start writing their own script. They will then have the rare and thrilling experience of hearing their words brought to life by professional actors as they read excerpts from the brand-new works. Both novice and experienced writers are encouraged to participate.

The workshop is free. Registration will be capped at 15 and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Workshop classes will consist of four two-hour writing sessions on June 9, 10, and 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. and June 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. The short scenes or monologues that are created during those classes will then be read by a cast of professional actors in a free public performance on Saturday, June 13 at 2 p.m.

All classes as well as the public performance will be held at the Carmel Clay Public Library, 425 E. Main St. Registration is available at atistage.org.

Andrew Kramer is a playwright, director, and new play dramaturg originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is the Literary Director of American Lives Theatre in Indianapolis, where he directed last season’s production of Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning and returns this season to direct Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for The Existence of God.

Kramer is a graduate of Ball State University’s Department of Theatre & Dance and a proud alumnus of the Emerging Writer’s Group at The Public Theatre. His plays have been developed through The Downstage Left Playwriting Residency at Stage Left Theatre, The Nord Playwriting Fellowship at Cleveland Public Theatre, the Groundbreakers Playwrights’ Group with the terraNOVA Theatre Collective, the SigWorks Musical Theatre Lab with Signature Theatre, the Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Repertory Theatre and the Core Apprentice Writer Program at The Playwrights Center.

Kramer was a finalist for the Forward Flux’s New American Plays Commission. His work has been seen in Cleveland, Indianapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Kansas City, Lincoln, Louisville, Nashville, Houston, Williamsburg, Va., New York City, Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Cairns, Australia, and Bucharest, Romania.

The ATI LAB Series is the company’s commitment to nurturing and developing new plays and musicals through readings and workshops. This program is sponsored by Jennifer Hershberger and is a partnership with the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation and American Lives Theatre.

Click here to register to be a student in the workshop.

ATI performs at The Studio Theater in the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Information on upcoming shows and tickets are available at atistage.org or by calling the Fifth Third Bank Box Office at (317) 843-3800.