Friday, January 28, 2011

Creative Writing Classes Begin Feb. 6




If anyone is in the Mid-Hudson Valley area for ten weeks starting Sunday, February 6, I'll be teaching four creative writing classes at Echo on Main Street, in Beacon, NY for grades K-2, 3-5, Middle/HS, and adult. Check out the descriptions below:

Playwriting and Puppets.


Grades K to 2, meets 2-3pm Sunday


Every week kids will collaboratively write a new mini-play, to be performed at the end of class by an accomplished duo of performing puppets.

Length: 10 weeks. Tuition: $100

Instructor: Peter Ullian


Playwriting for Kids.


Grades 3 to 5, meets 3-4pm Sunday


Each week kids will collaboratively create and perform short plays.


Length: 10 weeks. Tuition: $100

Instructor: Peter Ullian


Creative Writing for Teens.


Grades: Middle/HS, meets 4-5pm Sunday


A series of creative writing exercises designed to unleash the teen writer's voice.


Length: 10 weeks. Tuition: $125

Instructor: Peter Ullian


Unleashing Your Creative Writer.


Adults, meets 5-6pm Sunday


A series of creative writing exercises designed to unleash the adult writer's voice.


Length: 10 weeks. Tuition: $150

Instructor: Peter Ullian


Peter Ullian is an award-winning author of fiction published in periodicals and anthologies, screenplays for independent and major motion picture studios, and plays and musicals produced off-Broadway and at major regional Theaters.

You can sign up in person at Echo, or by e-mailing echo at: echoboutique@optonline.net.

You can also find them on Facebook by clicking here.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

2010's Ten Memorable Theater Moments You Might Have Missed 2011/01/01 Page 2


2010's Ten Memorable Theater Moments You Might Have Missed 2011/01/01 Page 2

Nice Way to Start 2011: Signs of Life Makes Broadway World.Com's list of "2010's Ten Memorable Theater Moments You Might Have Missed!" To quote:

"Members of the Freedom Party, who protested outside Broadway performances of The Scottsboro Boys, passed out flyers that asked, "Where is the song and dance musical about gas chambers?" Well, if they had ventured Off-Broadway this year they would have found it in Signs of Life, Peter Ullian, Len Schiff and Joel Derfner's musical drama about the Theresienstadt concentration camp; the Nazi's "City For The Jews," which was intended to appear as a safe and nurturing artist colony when inspected by the Red Cross. A musical-within-the-musical scene had Jewish prisoners, under the threat of being sent to the death camp of Auschwitz, partaking in a merry theatrical jamboree. With so many still under the impression that adding song and dance can only trivialize serious issues, it was a daring move for the creators of this ambitious musical."

Read more: http://broadwayworld.com/article/2010s_Ten_Memorable_Theater_Moments_You_Might_Have_Missed_20010101_page2#ixzz19nvS8Bzt