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CREATIVITY WORKSHOP OCTOBER 28, 2-5 pm
Our Team:
Francesca Mantani Arkus has directed and collaborated on numerous pieces in New York City at New York Theatre Workshop (reading series), HERE,
Blue Heron Arts Center, Phil Bosakowski Theatre, Access Theatre, 78th Street Theatre Lab, TADA, The Director’s Company,
Barrow Group, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Emerging Artists and Mark Taper Forum
in Los Angeles. She has served as Assistant Director to Tina Landau on Floyd Collins, at Playwrights Horizons
and Time of Your Life, at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Seattle Rep, and A.C.T. in San Francisco. Francesca
is a director with New York University’s First Look Theatre Company, and a board member of Alive Process Theatre.
She has directed Words of Choice performances that traveled to Iowa, Rhode Island, New Jersey and South Dakota, and
was part of a Words of Choice Creativity Workshop at Feminists Fighting Forward at New York University.
Cindy Cooper, the creator of Words of Choice,
is an award-winning playwright and journalist in New York. Her plays have won honors from Pen & Brush, Nantucket Playwright
Festival, Malibu International Festival, Samuel French Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, and others. How She Played
the Game about six women from sports history was in D.C. last year and produced in New York at the Women’s
Project and Productions and Primary Stages, and elsewhere at 90 regional venues, Budapest, Canada, and Finland. A two-time
Jerome Fellow, her plays are published in 11 volumes, including Great Monologues for Women and Hit the Nerve.
Her articles appear in Women’s eNews, Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Glamour, Marie
Claire, and others, and she has written six non-fiction books. She was Communications Director at the Center for Reproductive
Rights. She has taught Creativity Workshops at Feminists Fighting Forward at NYU, at the National Leadership
& Networking Institute (NLNI) of Hampshire College, FIT, New School, and elsewhere, and has taught playwriting at
the 62nd St. Y, Damas Gracias Retreat (through a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts), Marymount, University
of Wisconsin, and at schools in New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Minnesota, Alabama.
Suzanne Grossman
is a Brooklyn-based writer, musician and activist who has been working in the field of women’s and girls’ advocacy
for over ten years. Her has been Director of Programs for the Woodhull Institute of Ethical Leadership and held a fellowship at the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University, and previously worked at
the Center for Reproductive Rights. One of the inaugural “Real hot 100” which honors the accomplishments of young
women, Suzanne is also an Irish music fiddle player and a founder of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. She toured with Words of Choice in South Dakota in 2006, wrote the resource guide for the Words of
Choice DVD DVD Version and taught Words of Choice Creativity Workshops at Feminists Fighting Forward at NYU and at the National
Leadership and Networking Institute of Hampshire College.
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