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Monologue Writing Workshop In-Person
In partnership with the Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency, a monologue writing workshop led by 2024/2025 Resident Playwright Max Posner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves; Bodies Bodies Bodies).
Space is limited. Registration is required.
In partnership with the Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency (SVPR), a non-profit organization that fosters new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and fuels the American theatre with invigorating new plays.
- Date:
- Saturday, October 12, 2024
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- Adults Teens & Tweens
- Categories:
- Classes & Discussions
Sarah DeLappe is a playwright, screenwriter, and television writer based in Brooklyn. As a playwright, she is best known for THE WOLVES, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2017. THE WOLVES was nominated for a number of awards including the Lucille Lortel Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award; won the Relentless Award; and was a finalist for the Yale Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. THE WOLVES has been produced worldwide with over 300 productions. Her one-act, RICHARD IN 9 POSES, was produced by Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks. She’s taught at NYU and the New School. Other honors include the Page One Fellowship at the Playwrights Realm and the Sky Cooper New American Play Prize. Fellowships and developmental support include The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Ground Floor, Cape Cod Theatre Project, LCT3 Playwright in Residence, Ars Nova Play Group, Clubbed Thumb Early Writers Group, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Sitka Fellows Program. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. As a screenwriter, she wrote BODIES BODIES BODIES produced by A24. As a television writer, she has written for HBO’s THE REGIME.
Max Posner is a celebrated playwright whose upsetting comedies of family life have pushed buttons off Broadway and across the United States. His play THE TREASURER premiered at Playwrights Horizons in a critically-acclaimed, sold-out production directed by David Cromer starring Peter Friedman & Deanna Dunagan (NYT & TimeOut Critic's Pick; "highbrow brilliant" in Vulture; Lortel Nominee for Best Play; printed in American Theater Magazine). Earlier plays include JUDY (Page 73 directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, TimeOut Critic’s Pick); SISTERS ON THE GROUND (NYU directed by Ken Rus Schmoll) and SNORE (Juilliard directed by Knud Adams) - both ensemble plays regularly performed in acting programs. His plays are published & licensed by Dramatists Play Service.
For film, Max is adapting Percival Everett’s novel So Much Blue for the screen with director Rashid Johnson. For TV, Max wrote for John Early’s episode of The Characters (Netflix) and with Early he is developing a drama about a jealous millennial hurtling towards a spiritual crisis in the Hudson Valley.
He is a Sundance Institute Fellow; winner of the Helen Merrill Emerging Award, Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship (x3), Le Compte du Nuoy Awards from Lincoln Center (x2), Heideman Award, Edgerton Foundation New Play Award as well as commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Williamstown, Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, The New York State Council for The Arts and the Duke/Mellon Foundation.
Born and raised in Denver, Colorado Max went to undergrad at Brown University (Weston Award in Playwriting) where he studied with Paula Vogel. After moving to New York, he did a two-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship at Juilliard where he studied with Christopher Durang and Marsha Norman. Plays in development: HANUKKAH SPECTACULAR (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor directed by Cromer, starring Kate Berlant; upcoming Sun Valley Playwright's Residency) and THE POOL directed by Sarah Benson. Max lives in Brooklyn.