Icicle Creek New Play Festival

Summer Writers Intensive

August 15-16, 2015
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts
Leavenworth, WA

A Little History
For 8 years, ICNPF has offered playwrights the space, time
and support they need to develop their new plays as they
work alongside professional actors and directors, and then
present their work to live audiences. After a week of rewrites
and improvements to the plays, the Leavenworth community
and theatre industry from around the country are invited to
give feedback, and become part of the birth of new plays
during presentations at the Snowy Owl Theater.
Three of those plays went on to win The Steinberg Award,
the top award given to new works produced outside New
York City.

New Plans for This Year

In 2015, INCPF will offer writers the chance to
become more involved in the play development
process with a weekend of hands-on workshops and
speakers to guide them in the art of playwriting.
Attached is a proposed schedule for the weekend
we are considering:

Pilgrims Musa and Sheri In The New World by Yusuf El

Guindi (2010) won Seattles Gregory Award for Best Play
and was published by Samuel French.

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DAY ONE
Saturday Morning Workshops
Adapting Your Work For The Stage
A Directors Perspective on Playwriting: What Kinds of Plays Do We Look For?
-- LUNCH & SCENERY BREAK-Saturday Afternoon Workshops
Make it Happen: How to Manage Conflict
and Dialogue in a Play
Everybodys Crazy: Creating Rich and
Engaging Characters
-- DINNER AND WRITING BREAK -Saturday Evening Drama Slam
Live performances of your short plays along with
copious wine tasting.

Snowy Owl Theater at the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts
in Leavenworth, WA

DAY TWO
Sunday Afternoon Staged Reading
Staged Reading of FIRST PLAY & Audience Talk Back Session
-- DINNER BREAK & SPEAKER -Why Plays Still Matter in a Digital World
Sunday Evening Staged Reading
Staged Reading of SECOND PLAY & Audience Talk
Back Session

Samuel Hunters The Whale (2011) won the Drama

Desk Award and the Sky Cooper New American Play
Prize.