Name: Building Possibility: Using the Tools of Improvisation for Playwriting
Start: 2026-07-10T11:45:00-0700
End: 2026-07-10T12:45:00-0700

Building Possibility: Using the Tools of Improvisation for Playwriting

Friday July 10, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

225 Classroom

Have you always wanted to write a play? The tools of improvisation can help you begin! Playwrights E. M. Lewis and Sara Jean Accuardi will lead several group exercises that explore how to set up scenes and stories for success. Then we’ll break out into small groups to practice. Bring paper! Be ready to participate and share!

Artists

E. M. Lewis

Playwright

E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright and opera librettist whose work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received the Steinberg Award for How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction and the Primus Prize for Heads from the American... Read More →

Sara Jean Accuardi

Sara Jean Accuardi is an award-winning playwright whose works include The Storyteller (Artists Repertory Theatre), The Delays (Theatre Vertigo), < 3 (Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), CHICK FIGHT! (Shaking the Tree Theatre, Artemis Theatre Project ), BREAK (Valdez Theatre Conference), and P... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
225 Classroom

Workshop

GII Symposium 2026

E. M. Lewis

Sara Jean Accuardi

Attendees (16)

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GII Symposium 2026

E. M. Lewis

Sara Jean Accuardi

Attendees (16)

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