Stop #1 - Workshop Production

After finding out that I would be directing the world premiere production of "The Road to the End", playwright - Bella Panciocco, dramaturg - Jess Singly, and I knew the first thing we needed to do was workshop the script. Workshops are an integral part of the new play development process to edit, devise, and give a voice to a script that had never been read aloud before. As fourth-year seniors in our University's School of Theater, we were surprised when this was a project we had to fight for, but we decided to use the power of our fellow students and mount a workshop ourselves. The product ended up being a sold-out staged reading event which would end up being one of the most successful and engaging events of the season empowered by solely students and an inaugural company that gave life to the script in ways we could never have imagined. This first stop along this journey foreshadowed a constant theme of students taking charge of their art and advocating for themselves along the process.