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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Marilyn Abildskov Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy K.Barry Timothy Bascom Kyle Beachy Karen Bender Linda Bendorf Maudy Benz Venise Berry Bruce Bond David Bouchier Michael Dennis Browne Maggie Conroy Mary Cross Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Janet Desaulniers Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Jill Esbaum Sarah Fay Hugh Ferrer Katie Ford Geoffrey Forsyth Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Rebecca Johns Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Daniel Khalastchi Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Peter Markus Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Diana Ossana Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Kiki Petrosino Mark Jude Poirier Leslie Carol Roberts Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Robert Anthony Siegel Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Kris Vervaecke Ashley Warlick Michelle Wildgen Bart Yates	Maggie Conroy Writing the Monologue Weekend Workshop June 20–21 Biography Writing the Monologue Weekend Workshop June 20–21 Ever felt you were talking too much at the party? Here’s an opportunity to streamline and condense those stories and give them a clear beginning, middle and end. Through in-class writing exercises and in-class readings we’ll spend the weekend exploring different types of monologues. We’ll discuss examples of the autobiographical/narrative monologue, the autobiographical/character monologue, the character-driven/fictional monologue, and the reality-based docu-monologue. We’ll read some excerpts from the works of Spalding Gray, Doug Wright, Anna Deavere Smith and Jane Wagner. You don’t have to be a performer. You just have to want to write a focused monologue. As an assignment, I’ll ask you to create a short (2-10 minute) monologue which we’ll critique in class. This course is open to all writers. Biography Maggie Conroy (M.F.A., The University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop) has taught playwriting at The University of Iowa. She has performed her monologues, Celestial Messengers, The Short History of a Colonial Dame, and Sailing into Iowa at various venues in Iowa and Massachusetts. She wrote the one-man play, Irving Weber’s Iowa City, which was commissioned by ARTS Iowa City. Her prize-winning monologue, Foreign Tours, was performed at the Perishable Theatre in Providence, R.I.

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