“HOW I WRITE” CONVERSATIONS
Sponsored by Stanford Writing Center, Undergraduate Advising and Research, and the Program in Continuing Studies
“How I Write” is a series of conversations with faculty and other advanced writers to explore the nuts and bolts, pleasures and pains, of all types of writing. While content is always an issue, the conversation will primarily focus on work styles, such as where, when, and how a writer composes, allowing us to examine habits, idiosyncrasies, techniques, trade secrets, hidden anxieties, and delights. We will discuss how a writer generates ideas, sustains large-scale projects, combines research with composition, overcomes various impediments and blocks, and cultivates stylistic innovations.
Join Hilton Obenzinger, Associate Director for Honors and Advanced Writing, Stanford Writing Center, in conversations on the techniques, quirks, and joys of advanced writers producing work in all fields and genres.
All events are in The Stanford Writing Center, Basement of Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460), 7PM
Amy Freed, Artist in Residence, Drama Department
Wed. October 25, 2006
7PM
Amy Freed is the author of The Beard of Avon, Freedomland (both commissioned by South Coast Rep), The Psychic Life of Savages, and other plays. Her work has been produced at SCR, New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Playwright's Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, and other theaters around the country. Her recent play, Safe in Hell, another SCR commission, received its premiere production in April, 2004, and was presented at Yale Rep in the fall of 2005. Her newest play, Restoration Comedy, debuted at Seattle Repertory in December, 2005, and received its Bay Area premiere at the California Shakespeare Festival. Amy has been the recipient of the Joseph Kesselring Award, The Charles MacArthur Award, is a several times winner of the LA Drama Critics Circle Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist for Freedomland.