how we roll...
We Meet Monthly
We meet monthly on Sunday afternoons. The facilitator creates a schedule that allows you to bring in your work at a mutually agreed upon time. Start with a monologue, scene, 10 min play, or longer with a reading by talented actors of your choice. Select from our group of actors (see our Actors Gallery), or others you have worked with in the past.
As we evolve away from COVID on-line gatherings, we are now alternating our time live at a midtown Manhattan studio and virtually via Zoom. A link can be shared should an interested writer wish to audit.
We Offer Constructive Feedback
Feedback is initiated and moderated by the facilitator and followed by fellow member playwrights and actors. We may have different levels of experience, but we all provide helpful insights based on the playwrights' own goals for the reading. Story, character and structure are all considered. It is ultimately the playwright who decides what is most useful for their own script development and purposes.
Session Dues
Characters, Ink. Playwrights session dues cover studio rental, admin and material fees. It is not run for profit. Two sessions held each year include 4 to 5 workshops per session. Each workshop is 3 hours long. Session dues will vary according to the number of workshops held.
The Facilitator
About Suzanne Mernyk
Suzanne is a playwright, performer, producer and classical musician living in NYC. She discovered the joy of creating a character when she was urged by a director to write and perform her own material for a one-woman show.
To her joy and amazement, the audience both laughed and cried. A wonderful and powerful discovery of the impact live theater can provide. Touching the hearts of others through her characters and the conflicts they struggle to resolve has become a passion. Influencers include Wendy Wasserstein, Neil Simon, Beth Henley, Billy Crystal, Smetana and Tchaikovsky.
Credentials
Suzanne has studied playwriting at NYU, the Dramatists Guild Institute and the Playwrights Lab at The Neighborhood Playhouse with Mary H. Baldridge. She is an active member of the Dramatists Guild and an invited participant in the annual Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, led by Gary Garrison and Gregg Henry.
Her plays have been performed at 13th Street Repertory Theater, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, the Quick Center for the Arts, the Chekhov International Play Festival, the Neighborhood Playhouse, Theatre 68, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and the Sam French Short Play Festival.