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Name of Applicant: Amount Requested: Category: Score: Omar Avalos $5,000 Artist 86.6 -2nd Place Brief Description of Project: A free playwriting and theatre - making workshop series in the city of Santa Ana. To be held June 2016 through June 2017. A three -part workshop series: each series host up to ten workshops. The series will be held at CSUF Grand Central Arts Center (where I am an artist -in- residence) and other local Santa Ana arts and non -art- making organizations and businesses. The series is primarily focused on playwriting but not limited to. The series will look to include workshops on acting, producing and other aspects of theater - making and to host these opportunities in both English and Spanish. Participant will be given tools on how to strengthen their innate story- telling abilities through the use of playwriting, acting and producing. It will cover basic elements of dramatic writing, fundamentals of playwriting, discussion and reading of work of contemporary playwrights, revising writing and theatre exercises all taught by professional playwrights and theatre artists associated with Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble. Series is process based and no experience necessary. Each session will culminate in a supportive free public reading of pieces generated by participants. At the end each session we will culminate in a free public reading of the writings generated by the participants to be presented for free and accessible to the public. The process will be supported by professional theatre artists. Readers will be a blend of professional, local and community actors and directors. Community Benefit: 1. Participants leave program with an introductory playwriting and theatre making tools taught by professional theatre makers and playwrights working in American Theatre locally and nationally 2. Participants will see themselves as creative story- tellers / playwrights 3. Participants will have participated in constructive and devising discussions regarding their work and others 4. Participants will have engaged and participated in collaborative rehearsal process to prepare for their public reading 5. Participants will share their new work read aloud with their audience of families, friends, supporters at a free public reading 6. Participants stories will be reflective of themselves and of their community 7. Participants will be exposed to the many intricate aspects of Santa Ana with the series hosted at various Santa Ana organizations and locations associated with the project. 8. Participants will leave with an introspective understanding of story- telling, a relationship to theatre and to community building 9. The desire for live theatre and theatre - making opportunities has a home in the Santa Ana Community 10. This project and process reaffirms the support of programming for arts and culture in the community and validates that Santa Ana is a community of thriving, emerging and soon to be arts and artists 25J -16