Alaska Writers Workshop 2024
Theater Alaska is offering the opportunity for Alaskan writers to develop work for performance in 2024.
Alaska Writers Workshop
The Alaska Writers Workshop is a 7-week residency offering a cohort of 3 Alaskan writers the space and time to further develop a full-length play that they are currently working on. The Alaska Writers Workshop is led by New Dramatist playwright Julia Izumi, who will offer guided instruction and feedback on their work. All meetings will be over the Zoom on-line platform for 2024.
Saturday, March 23 & Sunday, March 24 - Discussion of plays
Saturday, April 27 - Reading of plays w/ actors via Zoom
Saturday, May 11 - Final meeting; discussion w/ professional playwright
ALASKA WRITERS WORKSHOP APPLICATION
Participation in the Alaska Writers Workshop is free and open to residents of Alaska. The application period for this year’s workshop is now closed.
ALASKA WRITERS WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR
Julia Izumi is a writer and performer who makes plays, musicals, theatrical nonsense, and everything in between. Her work has been developed and presented at MTC, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Barn Arts Collective, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, and Pork Filled Productions. Honors for her work include the OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, O’Neill Theater Center’s NPC Finalist, Kilroys List Honorable Mention, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. She is a 2020/2021 New Georges Audrey Resident and an upcoming New Dramatists member. MFA: Brown University. www.juliaizumi.com.