Authors’ Series Speakers: Fall 2010
Please join the Authors' Guild, The English Majors/Language Lovers' Club, and Associated Students as We Kick off the 2010-2011 Evergreen Valley College Author's Series and Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Author/Poet/Playwright: Marisela Treviño Orta
Poet and playwright Marisela Treviño Orta has an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Marisela's plays include: American Triage (commissioned by Marin Theatre Company, 2007 MTC Nu Werkz series, 2008 MTC workshop production); Braided Sorrow (2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2006 [Inside] the Ford Summer Reading Series, 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, 2008 world premiere at Su Teatro in Denver, Co., and 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Drama); Woman on Fire (2006 Primer Pasos: Un Festival de Latino Plays, 2007 full-length commission by the Latino Playwrights Initiative, 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH, and 2008 Playwrights Foundation's In The Rough reading series). Currently, Marisela is a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco and a member of the 2009-2010 Playground writers pool. Her poetry has appeared in BorderSenses, Double Room, 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and Traverse.
TIME: 12:30-1:30 P.M.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
LOCATION: EVC THEATER
CAMPUS: EVERGREEN VALLEY COLLEGE, SAN JOSE, CA
For more information contact Sterling Warner at 6605 or Sterling.Warner@evc.edu
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Please Join the Evergreen Valley College Authors' Guild, the English Majors/Language Lovers' Club, and the EVC Associated Students in Welcoming the October 2010 Authors' Series Speaker Author/Director/Educator/Playwright: Gemma Whelan
Gemma Whelan, former theatre instructor at Evergreen Valley College and author of Fiona: Stolen Child, is an Irish born theatre director and educator. After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, she directed more than sixty stage productions, and was founding artistic director of GemArt and Wilde Irish Productions. Gemma is an award-winning screenwriter and film director, and has graduate degrees in Theatre (University of California, Berkeley) and Film (San Francisco State University). She currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Described as a "captivating odyssey" by a writer who "is a natural born storyteller with a brilliant eye for character and description, Fiona: Stolen Child tells the story of an Irish writer living in New York City who has been running from her past since she left rural Cregora, Ireland for boarding school. Her past catches up with her, many years later, when her thinly veiled autobiographical novel is optioned for a movie. Working as the film's consultant, Fiona unearths deep secrets, relives childhood trauma, and connects with an estranged family thrust back into her life. As her history opens upon her, Fiona must stop running and confront her secret shame: her long-held sense of responsibility over the death of her little sister.
TIME: 12:30-1:30 P.M.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010
LOCATION: EVC THEATER
CAMPUS: EVERGREEN VALLEY COLLEGE, SAN JOSE, CA
For more information contact Sterling Warner at 6605 or Sterling.Warner@evc.edu
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