PYP Virtual Programs are available to student across North America. Please note that all class times are EST.
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This fall, Philadelphia Young Playwrights is writing the story backward. From Movement to Page is a workshop offering student writers the opportunity to create a story before the pen hits the paper. Are you a writer who gets stuck while trying to create a character or write conflict? Are you a writer who has ever wanted to perform your work? Are you a performer who has wanted to try writing, but doesn’t know where to begin? This workshop is for both writers and performers looking for new ways to create or activate their writing. Through movement, writing, and acting exercises, participants will create two monologues while receiving a brief introduction to solo performance. During the workshop, they will learn how to apply these new techniques to writing and performance, creating dynamic characters with engaging stories.The workshop will conclude with a showing of participants’ works in progress. Participants will have the option of performing their works or having their work performed by other participants. This workshop, facilitated over Zoom, is open to students in the Greater Philadelphia Area (including South Jersey and Delaware).
Students who participate in the program will:
Students who participate in the program will:
- Stretch their creativity
- Practice their writing skills
- Flex their problem solving abilities
- Learn how to give and receive feedback
- Experience the impact of their words and ideas on an audience
This program for students grades 8 - 12 will be held online via Zoom on
- Saturday November 6th - 10am-2pm
- Sunday November 7th- 10am-2pm
Tuition is $225, and we will invoice for tuition the week prior to the start of the program. However, thanks to the generous support of our donors, we are also able to offer a reduced tuition of $100 for families in need.
To inquire about tuition-free scholarships to the Movement to Page workshop, please fill out the registration form and check that option under “Tuition Selection".
To inquire about tuition-free scholarships to the Movement to Page workshop, please fill out the registration form and check that option under “Tuition Selection".
Shavon Norris is an artist, educator, and facilitator. She uses movement along with text and sound and imagery to reveal and highlight the stories living in our bodies. Her work explores our relationship to our identities, our experiences, and to each other. An examination and celebration of what we feel, think, and believe. She received a BA in Biology from Manhattanville College and an MFA in Dance and Choreography from Temple University. Presently she teaches at Temple University, Thomas Jefferson University and Pig Iron School. As an artist her work has been presented at venues in New York City and Philadelphia. As a performer, she has participated in performances for Silvana Cardell, Leah Stein, Merian Soto, Jumatatu Poe, David Brick and has toured nationally and internationally with Pig Iron Theatre Company. As an educator and facilitator, Shavon has worked with Headlong Performance Institute, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Need in Deed, LiveConnections, and Arts and Business Council for Greater Philadelphia. In partnership with these organizations, as well as others, Shavon has offered short and long-term learning to diverse communities on topics of Movement, Intentional Inclusivity, Mindfulness, Wellness, and Healing Centered/Trauma Informed Practices. Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to offer herself, learners, performers, and audiences, opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. To explore ways to light us up, lift us up and shift what needs transforming. She loves all of living and working she gets to do in the world.
Marissa Kennedy is a theatre artist whose aesthetic is centered around engaging the imagination to inspire, give voice, and to promote healing and positive change. As a playwright, her work was featured in the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival’s Day of One Acts and produced for the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has been teaching with Philadelphia Young Playwrights since 2018. Marissa received her BA in English from Oberlin College and her MA in Theatre from Villanova University.
