Tag Archive: Che’Rae Adams

Nov
21

Is There Power in Art?

A few days ago I pondered the power of art, and threw out a question to many artists I know. Here are some of their responses, in order of receipt. To outline and clarify what ails and cheers us, and to motivate us to grapple with it honestly (whether we want to or not) - Kwana …

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Nov
02

Best Writing Class in LA

I took the regular writing class, but highly recommend Che’Rae Adams to find support, clarity of purpose and just enough push to get those ideas out of your head and onto the page. Seriously, I had multiple breakthroughs while working on my first draft. -CMJ presents a Solo Show Bootcamp Everything you ever wanted to …

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Aug
25

The Working Director follow-up | Che’Rae Adams

I recently started an interview series The Working Director , very much modeled after Adam Szymkowicz’s I Interview Playwrights blog. Since the idea is to start conversation around what it means to be a working director, I followed up with the original interviews. We’d love your comments! Today is Che’Rae Adams part 2 ~ Read …

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May
23

The Working Director | Che’Rae Adams

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Che’Rae Adams is a good friend, and amazing collaborator as Director & Dramaturg. Remounting Karen Anzoategui’s solo show SER at the Hollywood Fringe Festival interests me and so I invited her to be profiled as a Working Director. You can also read about my personal experience in her workshop at the LA Writer’s Center here, …

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May
07

LA Writers Center

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I’ve posted here many times on the art of procrastination, the struggle to write clashing with the desire to tell stories. When I decided to go freelance last year, at the top of my to-do list was take a class with Che’Rae Adams and the LA Writers Center. Everyone who has taken her class encouraged …

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Oct
13

Directors Lab West Complete Coverage

Below is the complete coverage of the Directors Lab West 2010, first appearing on LA Stage Alliance blog. I coordinated the coverage and was contributing writer for many of the sessions, partnering with Doug Oliphant and Rachel Jenkins. These two lovelies stayed up way too late many nights to get the coverage to me before …

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