ACT 1
A Young Playwrights Workshop


Date: July 16-July 30 (excluding weekends)
Time: 9:00-5:00
Location: The Center for Contemporary Arts, Shepherd University

Ages: 16-21
Fee: $200 includes lunch and laptop rental
(There will be two scholarships slots available. Please send a letter of application explaining your interests with a resume and two letters of recommendation.)

Enrollment is limited so please apply now. Click here to download application form.
Please complete form and either mail or fax to:
CATF
Attn: Peggy McKowen
PO Box 429
Shepherdstown, WV 25443

Fax: 304-876-5443


Director of Act I: Theresa M. Davis
Ms. Davis has most recently directed the University of Virginia’s production of THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III and worked closely with playwright Carlyle Brown to develop the production. Other recent directing projects of works by African American playwrights include: SEVEN GUITARS, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, MO PAS CONIN, FLYIN’ WEST. Ms. Davis recently joined the directing faculty of the University of Virginia. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.


Master Teacher: David Andrew Snider
Producing Artistic Director and CEO of The Young Playwrights Theatre in Washington DC

Mr. Snider has been an actor, director, educator, producer, and administrator for over 15 years. He has worked in both the classical repertory of Shakespeare, Shaw and Chekhov, and on the development of new work, with playwrights such as Kenny Lonergan, Femi Osofisan and Karen Zacarias. Over the years he has directed, acted and taught with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Kennedy Center, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Hangar Theatre (as Director of the Hangar’s Lab Company), Playwrights Horizons (as the Robert Moss Resident Director), Jean Cocteau Repertory and the Maddermarket Theatre of Norwich, England. Since joining YPT in 2005, David has reinvigorated the company’s vision and mission, raising the company’s local and national profile while improving the company’s fiscal health and expanding YPT’s infrastructure through several capacity-building projects. Under his leadership, YPT has been awarded commissions from the White House, the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institution while establishing the company’s first-ever resident acting company and an advisory panel of nationally-recognized playwrights, including Paula Vogel, Anna Deavere Smith, Sarah Ruhl, Nilo Cruz and Charles Randolph Wright. David has taught master classes in text, directing, acting, voice and Shakespeare in performance as a guest lecturer at the Kennedy Center, the University of Virginia, University of Maryland, Howard University, Dickinson College and as a member of the faculty at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. David received his MFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and his BA in English Literature/Russian language from Dickinson College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Directing Fellow of the Drama League of New York, the Vice Chair of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative and the current President of the League of Washington Theatres.


Guest Instructors:
CATF Playwright Richard Dresser
Shepherd University Professors Dr. Sylvia Shurbutt and Dr. Betty Ellzey



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