reborn on stage

Reborn on Stage

Monologue Writing

NOV 10

6 - 8 PM

Presentation House Theatre

NOV 11 - 12

11 am - 5 PM

Presentation House Theatre

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Join an immersive workshop led by Naghmeh Samini, scriptwriter and lecturer in Dramatic Arts. You'll learn the craft of writing monologues based on real historical or cultural figures, bringing them back to life on stage.

Participants in this three-day workshop will first improve their writing skills in creative writing exercises and then go through the innovative methods of writing monologue (Mono Drama) by focusing on a real character Who has historical or cultural importance. At the end of the workshop, the participants will read their writings in public to get the audience’s feedback.

Naghmeh has recently led a similar workshop at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Please note this workshop is in Farsi.

Naghmeh Samini

Naghmeh Samini (PhD), playwright, scriptwriter, and lecturer in Dramatic Arts, was born in Iran and received her BA in Drama and MA in Cinema from the University of Tehran. She did her PhD in Art Studies at the University of Tarbiat Modarres in Tehran with a thesis on Drama and Mythology. She Used to be the Professor of University of Tehran for 15 years, and she has been an affiliate professor at University
of Washington since 2019.
More than twenty of her plays have been staged in Iran, France, India, Canada, the United States and other countries. These include Sleeping in an Empty Cup, Sky Horses Rain Ashes, The Homeland, and The Forgotten History of Mastaneh. Her screenplays, including Main Line, Heiran, and Three Women, won awards. She is the scriptwriter of the most famous Iranian series, Shahrzad. Her plays are experimental in structure
and handle a variety of topical subjects at personal and sociopolitical levels.
Inspired by One Thousand and One Night, she uses magic realism and non-linear narratives in her plays. She is also the author of several semi-fictional and theoretical books, such as Wars and Bodies, The Theatre of Mythology, and I am Sindbad You are traveller.