What We Do
Playwriting workshops
A three-week residency brings young people together with coaches from the Portland performing arts community. Students work one-on-one with coaches, learning and honing the tools for creating a play.
Each play in its entirety springs solely from the mind, feelings and heart of the young writer. At the end of the workshop, professional actors perform a staged reading of the plays before a live audience. This performance – the culmination of three weeks’ work – is a collaborative event involving author, actors and audience. The young writers glow with well-deserved pride as they witness their work being brought to life.
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Testimony given before the Portland City Council by Bruce Livingston, Executive Director of PlayWrite (regarding the 2008 State of the Arts Report presented by Carole Morse (chair of Regional Arts & Culture Council Board of Directors) and Eloise Damrosch (ED of RACC)):
