Posts Tagged ‘playwrights’
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to wish all writers time to write, read, and support other writers.
I wrote a review for author Mary B. French. She had sent me the link to her YouTube and Amazon pages.
Mary B. French‘s children’s book about Compass (a teddy bear who has special talents) and his human friend Molly (whose parents are separated) teaches readers (young and old) how to be a good friend, go after our dreams, and love ourselves. Also, I learned a few things about English customs, and, how one would go about meeting the Queen. A sweet story!
Cheers to the author of Bear-ly There With Compass and all the protagonists in the story!
Sincerely, 22-day writing and fanbase-building coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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I am reading entries to “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” which I am sponsoring for the San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division and California Writers Club SF Peninsula Branch. Thank you, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, CWC, and everyone who support the many writing contests. Thank you, Professor Sheryl Fairchild, for being co-judge to the contest I’m sponsoring. Bravo to all contestants, for polishing your pieces and submitting to the various contests.
Advice to writers who will be entering their works to any writing contest: follow guidelines to increase your chance of receiving an award. If the contest’s theme is battling mental illness, write about that; if the contest’s theme is about adopting a pet, write about that.
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Last performance The Year of Magical Thinking will be Sunday April 27, 2014.
Authors Mary E. Knippel, Lynn Scott and I are going to see the play The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (based on her memoir of the same title), directed by Craig A. Miller, starring Grace Kingsley. Thank you, director Lennie Dean, for emailing this message:
“If you have a chance see this incredible one-woman play….so well acted and beautifully written . . . . Call the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA 707-523-4185
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Saturday, June 21, 2014 Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan will present “Build/Fortify Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase” at California Writers Club – Tri-Valley Branch in Pleasanton, California. Thank you, Paula Chinick and Blake Heitzman, for inviting me!
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan is the author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW. Click here for print edition. Click here for Kindle edition. “Reach out, not stress out.”
Teresa’s novel Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby is used in college courses and archived at the San Francisco History Center.
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For other posts in my blog, please go to: https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog
If you’re looking for my blog posts pertaining to our Beautiful Brains and Neuroplasticity… https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog look at right side of screen, you’ll see the category “Beautiful Brains Neuroplasticity”. Please click on that category to get those posts.
Has it been a year already since my colleagues and I witnessed our 10-minute plays produced at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California? Photos at: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/coach-teresa-leyung-ryan-says-i-love-being-in-the-performing-arts-theater-world/
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cheering for Redwood Writers, Playwrights, Lennie Dean, Linda Loveland Reid, 6th Street Playhouse!
Redwood Writers has announced the seven winning playwrights of their 3nd Annual 10-Minute Play Contest. Teaming up again this year with 6th Street Playhouse, all seven plays will be produced in an intimate setting in the 6th Street Studio Theatre, Santa Rosa, CA.
7 playwrights, 7 plays, 6 directors and 10 actors bring you this year’s delectable offerings.
Play Festival
Festivities of the Fest!
• Full production of the 10-Minute Plays! 7 playwrights, 7 plays, 6 directors and 10 actors bring you this year’s delectable offerings.
June 27-30, 2013 (Cost: $18)
• Staged Readings: Full-length plays written by the judges of this year’s 10-Minute Play Contest: June 2, June 8 & July 21 (Donations accepted)
• The 10-Minute Play–Taking It To the Next Level: Join internationally produced playwright and founding writer with PlayGround, Garret Jon Groenveld, in a two-hour workshop exploring the ins and outs of the 10-Minute Play. We’ll look at strategies to push your 10-Minute Play to the next level, delving into techniques that innovate with structure, character & dialogue. Stretch your writing muscles with in-class exercises & a follow-up discussion of what to do with the play once you’ve written it. June 29, 11 a.m. (Cost: $10)
• Audience Favorite: Cast your vote! You the audience will have the opportunity to vote for your favorite play; the winning playwright, director and cast will be awarded during the final event of the Fest. Award presented June 30 at Meet the Playwright.
(Free Event!)
• Meet the Playwrights, Q & A: Following the final performance of the 10-Minute Plays, the playwrights will participate in an audience Q&A. June 30 @ 4:30 p.m. (Free event!)
*For showtimes, please check the website at www.6thstreetplayhouse.com.
The 10-Minute Plays Recipient of Sonoma County Grant, Festival Director, Lennie Dean
Get the details!
To purchase tickets and for more
information, visit our website at
www.6thstreetplayhouse.com or
call Box Office at (707) 523-4185 ext. 1.
The Plays:
- The Bucket by Jack Fender
- Crossroads by Darrell Grisham
- Starbucks on Broadway by Scott Lummer
- The Art of the Matter by Lynn Millar
- Intervention by Kay Mehl Miller
- Open House by Tony Sciullo
- Hot Water by Jean Wong
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Maureen Studer’s invitation:
Welcome to 2013 Playwrights Festival. Everyone loves playing to a full house.
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
author of:
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (the workbook)
Love Made of Heart (the mother-daughter novel used in college composition classes; book is archived at the San Francisco History Center)
Answer Me Now (the award-winning short play)
and speeches advocating mental health and end violence against women and children
Click here for a list of Coach Teresa’s event.
http://writingcoachTeresa.com for more resources.
Coach Teresa says: “Wear the dual hats of writer and promoter. Reach out, not stress out.”
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Would Like To Know If You Will Be Attending Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival 2012
Hello, Everyone!
I am proud to announce that my short-short-play Answer Me Now has been selected as one of the nine short-short-plays for this year’s festival and fundraiser June 29-July 1, 2012. Tickets will be on sale through the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA.
$16 per person for all 9 short-short plays
Tickets on sale now!! 707-523-4185
June 29, Friday at 8pm;
June 30, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm;
July 1, Sunday at 2pm.
July 1st 4:30-5pm, following performance, free panel discussion with winning playwrights
Answer Me Now is a 10-minute monologue (middle-aged woman asking her dead mom a question). Autobiographical? Please see the play and decide for yourself. I hope you’ll be able to attend a performance. Festival Director Lennie Dean is lining up directors. Who will be directing my play?
I can’t wait to see the other 8 plays written by fellow playwrights.
Festival Director Lennie Dean says: “More than 20 roles to cast and we will use 12 actors for these 20 some roles…. I have been working to firm up all of the events planned for the festival and will also send the line-up of the different events to all very soon.”
(Teresa here . . . I’ll update my Events page on my website as I receive more info).
If you’re planning to catch a performance, please email me (I’m at gmail.com My ID is: WritingCoachTeresa). I’d like to greet you in person before and after the show. Santa Rosa is a lovely town; perhaps you can support the festival and visit other attractions too.
Malena Eljumaily Special Delivery
Nancy Lockard Gallop There There, Now
Gene Griffith Gravediggers
Teresa LeYung-Ryan Answer Me Now
Amanda McTigue Turn The Other
Elaine Maikovska The Play Is the Thang
Harry Reid GPS
Elizabeth VanPatten Dream Girl
Jean Wong BFF
I look forward to seeing you!
Sincerely,
As editor/story consultant, Teresa LeYung-Ryan identifies themes and universal archetypes for clients.
As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes. She says her novel and her play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
http://writingcoachteresa.com for Coach Teresa’s Blog and other resources.
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s Play (monologue) a Winner of the 2012 Redwood Writers Playwriting Contest
3 April 2012
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to share sweet news with you.
At 8:19pm this evening I received a phone call from Linda Loveland Reid, telling me that my 10-minute play Answer Me Now has been chosen as one of the nine plays to be produced. I listened to Linda as she explained that directors will be selected, auditions will be scheduled, then casting, and rehearsals, and that the plays would be performed at the annual Redwood Writers Play Festival on June 29, 30 and July 1, 2012 in California.
Performances will be June 29, Friday at 8pm; June 30, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm; and July 1, Sunday at 2pm. Tickets will be $16 per person.
at Santa Rosa’s premier theater, 6th Street Playhouse. The plays will be presented on 6th Street’s Studio stage.
I’m feeling proud and sad at the same time; my play is a monologue (middle-aged daughter talking to her mother); I miss my mom so much.
Thank you, Linda Loveland Reid, for your generosity in creating the annual Redwood Writers Playwriting Contest. Thank you, judges Natasha Carter-Yim, Michael Fontaine and Lennie Dean. Thank you to fellow playwrights and everyone involved in this project.
Thank you, dear Lynn Scott, for your editing my play.
Last week I had already asked dear Elisa Sasa Southard to attend the April 15, 2012 meeting with me, winning or not, so that we could cheer for all the playwrights. Tonight, after receiving the call from Linda . . . I called dear Luisa Adams. Sasa could still be on her trip. It’s too late to call other pals, so, I write this blog post. Gotta email my sis (teaching abroad) and KB in Australia!
Kim McMillon, I’m thinking of you. Your plays have inspired me so much!
Kathryn G. McCarty, thank you for inspiring me with your writing and directing plays, and for giving me the thrill to be on stage for the fundraiser performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to benefit Community Violence Solutions.
Carol Sheldon, you have inspired me too. I look forward to seeing your new play this month.
Chandra Garsson, I’m thinking of you too. Your films have inspired me so much! Last month Chandra had offered to film me performing Answer Me Now so that I would have a Chandra Garsson production for my YouTube channel; I guess I better memorize my own lines… in addition to attending some of the rehearsals (as the playwright, not actor) when casting has been completed for the Redwood Writers Play Festival.
Screenwriter and screenwriting teacher Terrel Seltzer, thank you for having coached us on what a compelling story is.
Goodnight, Everyone!
Being a writer is a reward! Keep writing!
Sincerely,
As editor/story consultant, Teresa LeYung-Ryan identifies themes and universal archetypes for clients. As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.” Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes. She says her novel and her play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship. http://writingcoachteresa.com for Coach Teresa’s Blog and other resources. “Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
Here’s the email that I just received from Linda.
A huge thank you to judges Natasha Carter-Yim, Michael Fontaine and Lennie Dean. We wish that every play could have been chosen and appreciate everyone who participated.
The winners will be recognized at the April 15, 2012 Redwood Writer general meeting at the Flamingo Hotel at 2:30.
The judges will be in attendance to help recognize the winning playwrights. It is especially exciting this year, as the annual Redwood Writers Play Festival on June 29/30 and July 1, 2012 will be in partnership with Santa Rosa’s premier theater, 6th Street Playhouse. The plays will be presented on 6th Street’s Studio stage. Stand-by for lots more on that front, but for now, please help us celebrate our winning playwrights, listed below in alpha order:
Congratulations to the following nine winning playwrights!
Malena Eljumaily Special Delivery
Nancy Lockard Gallop There There, Now
Gene Griffith Gravediggers
Teresa LeYung-Ryan Answer Me Now
Elaine Maikovska The Play Is the Thang
Amanda McTigue Turn The Other
Harry Reid GPS
Elizabeth VanPatten Dream Girl
Jean Wong BFF