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Writers Ink with Maja Ardal
Visceral Playwriting with Linda Griffiths
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Back by popular demand, this two day masterclass is for the writer in you! Led by award-winning writer, actor, director, Maja Ardal who you may know for her solo show, You Fancy Yourself.
February 18, 10-5pm and February 19, 10-5pm, Nightwood Studio, $150 + HST
Maja Ardal Maja, an Icelandic Canadian, has been working in theatre for 40 years as an actor, director, playwright, and theatre instructor. She wrote and performs the hit shows, You Fancy Yourself (Dora Award for performance) and The Cure for Everything (nominated for a Dora Award for outstanding play). She has toured with You Fancy Yourself to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009, followed by a tour of England, and across Canada. Playwrights Canada Press publishes both plays. PCP also published her first play. Midnight Sun, (premiered at Tarragon Theatre, directed by Andy McKim and Patricia Vanstone) which was translated to Icelandic and produced in her hometown of Akureyri, Iceland. The Cure for Everything (produced by Theatre Passe Muraille, directed by Mary Francis Moore) recently toured to Prince Edward Island and Los Angeles for the California International Theatre Festival. Maja adapted and directed the play, Prisoner of Tehran from the best-selling memoir by Marina Nemat. Prisoner of Tehran will be mounted in April of 2012, produced by Contrary Company in association with Theatre Passe Muraille. Maja was the artistic director of Young People’s Theatre Toronto, 1990-98, interim Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre 2007-8, performed as a regular for 7 seasons in The Road to Avonlea, playing Mrs. Potts. Maja trains actors at Humber College and Fanshawe College, and gives workshops in theatre vocal and physical techniques in communities across Canada. Maja was the recipient of the 2002 George Luscombe Award for Mentorship in the Theatre. This summer she will perform Marie Dressler in the world premier of Queen Marie at 4th Line Theatre.
Visceral Playwriting with Linda Griffiths
A class designed to encourage a gut connection to the theatrical word. Playwright/actor Linda Griffiths leads this intensive for theatre practitioners from all traditions. This unique class plunges participants into writing on their feet, following a process beginning with observation exercises, overheard dialogue, personal story, then moving to invented/written work.
March 3, 4, 10-4pm, Nightwood Studio, $150 + HST
Linda Griffiths Playwright/actor Linda Griffiths is “…one of Canada’s ‘originals’. * Following her unique vision, Griffiths has written, acted and developed theatre that deals with the personal, the political and the fabulist. As playwright, Griffiths is the author of twelve plays and the winner of five Dora Mavor Moore awards, a Gemini award, two Chalmer’s awards, the Quizanne International Festival Award (Jessica), a Betty Mitchell Award and Los Angeles’ A.G.A. Award for her performance in John Sayles’ film Liana. Age of Arousal, which has been widely produced in Canada, the US, and recently in Edinburgh at the Royal Lyceum. Her new solo show, The Last Dog of War, about a trip to England with her RAF father, was produced at ATP in 2010. New projects include a full length drama, Games to be Played with Caution, and a sequel to The Darling Family - Heaven Above, Heaven Below.
To register for any of our Masterclasses, please use the registration form, downloadable here and email to Laura Pomeroy at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If you have any questions or issues with the form please call Laura at 416.944.1740 ex. 5.
Nightwood operates with a no refund or exchange policy on all masterclasses.