Welcome to Equity in Theatre

Dates: 23-27 November, 2015

Time: 10 AM to 6 PM

Venue: PWM Studio, 5337 boul. Saint-Laurent, suite 240

Cost: $50 for non-members, free for PWM members

Apply: Send a letter describing your interest in this Master Class and a CV to: emma@playwrights.ca

with Subject: Master Class Jill Murray

Application deadline: November 2, 2015

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Game Writing for Playwrights is a core storytelling workshop exploring the intersection of games and theatre. The world of gaming is introduced via the creation of individual board games and through the use of an on-line program called Twine to develop video game stories. The participants work purely with narrative (not graphics content) and Twine allows them to structure story in a way that will work for the interactivity of video games exploring the cause and effect of choices in a world with a multiplicity of options.

Jill Murray writes for video games and young adult novels. She won a 2013 Writer’s Guild Award for Excellence in Game Writing and felt nearly as giddy as she does any time a teenage reader tweets at her to say they like one of her books. In the past, Jill has been a blogger, a front end web developer, culture festival pr person, and a theatre student. She is the keeper of the one true secret about how these things are linked together. (The answer involves coffee farms, so you know that’s a long story.)

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