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Name of Applicant: Amount Requested <br />Sarah Guerro $5,000 <br />Brief Description of Project: <br />Category: Score: <br />Artist 66.1 <br />A free playwriting and theatre - making workshop series in the city of Santa Ana. To be held June 2015 <br />through April 2016. There are a total of 3 workshop series; each up to 10 weeks. Workshops will be <br />hosted by local Santa Ana arts and non -art- making organizations and businesses. Participant will be <br />given tools on how to strengthen their innate story- telling abilities through the use of playwriting. It will <br />cover basic elements of dramatic writing, fundamentals of playwriting, discussion and reading of work <br />of contemporary playwrights, revising writing and theatre exercises all taught by professional <br />playwrights and theatre artists associated with Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble. Series is <br />process based and no experience necessary. Each session will culminate in a supportive free public <br />reading of pieces generated by participants. <br />Community Benefit: <br />• Participants leave program with an introductory playwriting and theatre making tools taught by <br />professional theatre makers and playwrights working in American Theatre locally and <br />nationally. <br />• Participants will see themselves as creative story- tellers / playwrights. <br />Participants will have participated in constructive and devising discussions regarding their work <br />and others. <br />• Participants will have engaged and participated in collaborative rehearsal process to prepare <br />for their public reading. <br />• Participants will share their new work read aloud with their audience of families, friends, <br />supporters at a free public reading. <br />• Participants stories will be reflective of themselves and of their community. <br />• Participants will be exposed to the many intricate aspects of Santa Ana with the series hosted <br />at various Santa Ana organizations and locations associated with the project. <br />• Participants will leave with an introspective understanding of story - telling, a relationship to <br />theatre and to community building. <br />The desire for live theatre and theatre - making opportunities has a home in the Santa Ana <br />Community.This project and process reaffirms the support of programming for arts and culture <br />in the community and validates that Santa Ana is a community of thriving, emerging and soon <br />to be arts and artists. <br />See pages 27 -31 <br />25A -32 <br />