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From Poem to Stage: a 5-session Workshop with Rachelle Rahmé
Admission
- $200.00
Location
St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Room Number: Parish Hall
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Room Number: Parish Hall
Summary
Fridays, Sept 5-Oct 3
7-9pm ET
St Mark’s Church
This workshop is designed for poets with an interest in writing for the stage and playwrights looking to experiment with new techniques for writing. If you have a poem that is calling to take on a new form and be staged, voiced, and dwelled in, this class will guide you through the process of developing a one-act play based on your idea. Students will bring the poem they would like to work with to the first class, where we will proceed to break them open as a group through writing exercises and workshopping around character, mood, setting, arc (or lack there of), action, choreography, time-scale, dialog, and art direction - all elements that will be used to manifest our poems for stage. Our final project will be a (roughly) 10 minute one-act play. Weekly readings will be distributed to stimulate risk taking and imagination. We will also read each other’s works in-progress in class and provide each other with feedback. Over the course of five sessions we will see our poems in new ways, as if they were peopled and designed for living in the breadth of a single, staged act. Our poems will be the “inciting incidents” for new, collaborative spaces.
Bio: Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American poet interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Her first collection of poems, Mercurial, or Is That Liberty?, is forthcoming from Fonograf in October 2025. Born in Jounieh, she lives in New York City.
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7-9pm ET
St Mark’s Church
This workshop is designed for poets with an interest in writing for the stage and playwrights looking to experiment with new techniques for writing. If you have a poem that is calling to take on a new form and be staged, voiced, and dwelled in, this class will guide you through the process of developing a one-act play based on your idea. Students will bring the poem they would like to work with to the first class, where we will proceed to break them open as a group through writing exercises and workshopping around character, mood, setting, arc (or lack there of), action, choreography, time-scale, dialog, and art direction - all elements that will be used to manifest our poems for stage. Our final project will be a (roughly) 10 minute one-act play. Weekly readings will be distributed to stimulate risk taking and imagination. We will also read each other’s works in-progress in class and provide each other with feedback. Over the course of five sessions we will see our poems in new ways, as if they were peopled and designed for living in the breadth of a single, staged act. Our poems will be the “inciting incidents” for new, collaborative spaces.
Bio: Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American poet interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Her first collection of poems, Mercurial, or Is That Liberty?, is forthcoming from Fonograf in October 2025. Born in Jounieh, she lives in New York City.