The Comedy of Life, Death, & Art: A Workshop to Develop Comedic & Creative Work
with Samantha Chanse
Mondays, November 9-December 28, 7-9pm
(8 Sessions)
Life doesn't try to be funny; it just is. Life is tragedy with embedded comedy, and vice versa. The purpose of this interdisciplinary (but mostly writing/performing) workshop is to develop creative work with an emphasis on discovering and emphasizing the comedic elements; to identify and explore comedic concepts/principles; to integrate comedy into writing and performing; and to develop skills in terms of both writing and publicly presenting your work.
The workshop will introduce participants to a variety of comedic work, including creative nonfiction essays, film, music, standup comedy, sketch comedy, and other genres. Participants will develop a new piece in their chosen genre over the 8-weeks, and much of the workshop time will be devoted towards workshopping individual pieces while also introducing and exploring relevant concepts. The emphasis is not on forcing a particular style on anyone, nor on trying to be funny, but on encouraging workshop participants to find/develop her/his own voice, and on revealing existing comedy in a natural way.
The workshop will culminate in a public presentation of work presented by the Asian American Writers Workshop. This workshop is geared towards writers and/or performers, but artists in other fields (film, music,visual) and non-artist-identifying individuals are completely welcome.
Samantha Chanse is a writer & performer, teacher, and arts organizer who has been based in San Francisco since 2001. Her work has been presented with the NY International Fringe Festival, Kearny Street Workshop, The Marsh, Asian American Theater Company, Footloose/Shotwell Studios, Bindlestiff, and others. She was the recipient of a SFAC Individual Artist Commission, resulting in the 2008 SF/NY productions of her first solo play, Lydia’s Funeral Video. In 2009, she started performing a new solo show, Back to the Graveyard, for which she received an Artist In Motion residency from Footloose/Shotwell Studios. As a standup comic, she's performed in and around the Bay Area at venues like the purple onion, punchline comedy club (SF), locus arts, herbst theater, the laugh factory (NY and LA), cobb's, and other lovely comedy sites, including a number of dimly-lit bars and brightly-lit cafes. She co-founded multidisciplinary artist salon series Laundry Party, served as KSW’s artistic director, and recently embarked on a bicoastal lifestyle to pursue a MFA in playwriting at her native NYC's Columbia University. She has been teaching writing and performing workshops for over five years, primarily through Kearny Street Workshop, Performing Arts Workshop, and Bindlestiff Studio. www.samanthachanse.com.
$290 General /$265 Members; $39.25 General Deposit/ $36.00 Members
How to Sign up for a Creative Writing Workshop
(1) If you're interested in signing up for a writing workshop, you can do so either at the website for that specific workshop (see below) or by calling us at (212) 494.0061. We want you to be able to try out a class to see if you like it, so your credit card will be charged a non-refundable deposit for the first class only. (For one-day sessions, you will pay the full price of the session.) Unless otherwise noted, workshops are at The Asian American Writers' Workshop, 16 W. 32nd Street, 10th fl.
(2) Assuming you like the class, we'll then charge you for the remainder of the fee for the course.
- If you paid via telephone, your credit card will be charged the remainder of the fee for the course, unless you bring an alternative form of payment (cash or check) on the first day of class.
- If you paid online, please bring your preferred form of payment to the first class (credit card, cash, or check).
In either case, receipts will be given to you at the second session. Should you decide to drop the class, please notify us via telephone by 7pm on the business day following the first class. There are no refunds for classes missed voluntarily. We hope you enjoy the class!
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