Playwrights Workshop: Music, Character and Dramatic Structure
Sunday April 24, 2016
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
“Every day, I learn about character, tension, momentum, structure and the art of storytelling through my acquaintanceship with music of every genre, period and region” says resident Dramaturg Nick Carpenter. This workshop will combine listening, writing and discussion and is designed to inspire playwrights of any age and stage to make fascinating and helpful links between Dramatic and Musical Forms.
Meet the dramaturg Nick Carpenter
Nick is a Montreal based playwright, dramaturg, screenwriter, composer and musician. His stage plays, radio plays and short opera librettos have been performed across Canada, in the US and Germany. Nick teaches playwriting and offers dramaturgical advice to students at the National Theatre School of Canada and Concordia University. Nick has worked with the NAC, GCTC, National Theatre School, The Theatre Centre, Repercussion Theatre, Geordie Theatre, Imago Theatre, Infinitheatre, Concordia and Ottawa Universities, Theatre Lac Brôme, Third Wall, Théâtre Urbi et Orbi and on productions for the Magnetic North, Summerworks, Undercurrents and WildSide Festivals. For the last three years he has been the composer and band leader for the Montreal English Theatre Awards. Nick’s band Summersett (summersettband.com) released its debut CD in May 2015.