The Columbia Center for the Arts conducted a staged reading of my Play, Cell.
I'll be speaking at the Smithsonian Thursday 4/10/14 7pm. Buy tickets from the link below
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I'M SUBLETTING MY APARTMENT THIS SUMMER!!
DATES: JUNE 8-AUGUST 29-2014
VERY SUNNY STUDIO W/LOFT --LOWER 70'S.
4 FLIGHTS UP, VERY SAFE, COMFORTABLE BUILDING-- 1 BLK FROM MAJOR SUBWAY, 1 1/2 BLKS FROM SECOND MAJOR SUBWAY.
AIR-CONDITIONED, SEPARATE KITCHEN & BATH.
DSL.
1060./MONTH-- INCLUDES UTILITIES AND AIR-CONDITIONER AND DSC, PLUS HOUSE CLEANER
+100.00--SECURITY DEPOSIT
REFERENCES REQUIRED
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Writer's Gym Now Open!
Friday, March 7, 2014
“You canʼt wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club”
Jack London
Award-winning New York City playwright Cassandra Medley offers: Writers Gym, ™ for aspiring, and/or practicing writers. Have an idea for a play, screenplay, prose, or creative non-fiction piece you have always yearned to write, but never seem to get around to actually putting the words down? Do you have trouble returning to your writing project once your enthusiasm and confidence seems to melt away? My writing prompts will help guide you to initiate the fiction project you have always wanted to begin, or help you continue, and finally complete the writing project you are in the process of creating.
Find inspiration and guidance for developing and fleshing out distinctive, compelling characters. Explore, investigate, and gain access to your spontaneous ideas and visions so as to discover ever more forceful and persuasive story lines.
Writers Gym specialized writing exercises will be tailored to your own specific needs, and will help you transform your writers block into active, and consistent writing practice. Writers Gym exercises are designed to be adapted to playwriting, screenplay, fiction or memoir techniques. Additional guidance is offered for working through resistance, and writers block.
Start that writing project you are yearning to write, and follow through stages of exploration, development, revision, and completed draft.
Creative writing coaching and feedback sessions are conducted by way of online video media: Skype//FaceTime/or Google Chat
Fee:
Session:
$50.00/half hour.
Manuscript reading:
$1.00/page for first 60 pages of reading of draft material. $0.50 for each additional page.
http://cassandramedley.blogspot.com/
Facebook: Cassandra Medley
Webpage: Cassandra Medley- Playwright
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One Performance Only!
Friday, October 11, 2013
One Performance Only!
With New Monologues about or in the Voices of Children
ASP commissioned African American writers to examine the 419 graves of the anonymous men, women and children who lived in colonial New York and are buried at the African Burial Ground. The writers imagined their lives. These are their..
Unheard Voices
a monologue play with music
Conceived by Judy Tate
Written by the ASP Writers' Collective
Directed by Melissa Maxwell
Monday, October 21st, 7pm
170 Central Park West @ 77th St.
Free For Educators and Students!
RSVP to:
or call (212) 485-9293
Featuring:
Lynnette Freeman, Larry Floyd, Melissa Murray-Mutch, Devin Haqq
Original vocals by Aramide Ferguson and Percussion by Baba Don Eaton
Featuring writing by:
Keith Josef Adkins, Dennis Allen II, Joshua Allen, Cassandra Medley,
Dominique Morisseau, Harrison Rivers,
Judy Tate, Alexander Thomas and Cori Thomas
For more info visit our website:
The American Slavery Project, Producing Artistic Director, Judy Tate
The American Slavery Project: Unheard Voices is a sponsored project of the Vera Institute of Justice
and is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
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