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Email: CharactersInkNYC@yahoo.com

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Characters, INK. PLAYWRIGHTS

Characters, INK. PLAYWRIGHTS Characters, INK. PLAYWRIGHTS Characters, INK. PLAYWRIGHTS

Bring your characters to life

Bring your characters to life Bring your characters to life

Now in our 8th year!

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About Us

About Our Workshop

We meet monthly to hold readings, study the craft of playwriting and do exercises to enhance our skills.  


Fall/Winter 2022 workshop dates - 


October 2

October 30

November 20

December 11




Readings & Exercises

Our focus is on workshopping plays in progress, from character monologues to full lengths. Writing exercises and studying the craft further sharpen our skills and spark new insights.


A talented roster of actors and actresses (see our Actors Gallery) generously give us their time and talent to read our plays and offer feedback for character development.

Events

 As material becomes ready, we invite guests to see  the group's work during our much-anticipated Ten Minute Teaser Showcase.  


Industry Panel Showcases invite theater industry professionals to see a completed play and offer guidance to help take it to the next level.


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. 


Due to COVID, live workshops are being held online.  A link can be shared should an interested writer want 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 each year include 4 to 5 workshops.  Each workshop is 3 hours long.  Sessions  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 amazement, the audience laughed and then cried. 


This is how she discovered her passion - touching the hearts of others through her characters and the conflicts they struggle to resolve. 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. Most recently she was selected to participate in the 2020 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. 

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