Join us for a Workshop taught by a TNC Resident Playwright
Made possible through a generous grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation join us for one-of-a-kind playwriting workshop for young emerging writers! Don’t miss out on this free workshop taught by Melanie Maria Goodreaux, an immensely experienced Playwriting Teacher and a wonderfully talented Theater for the New City Artist.
Dates for the workshop are as following:
Saturday March 7th, 14th, and 21st happening between 11am-12:30pm all at Theater for the New City.
Sign up below to be apart of a very special workshop that will teach you skills you will you use forever as a writer!
To learn more about Ms. Goodreaux:
She is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, actor, and director-dramatist from New Orleans, Louisiana living in New York City and creating plays since the late 1990’s. Her plays are surreal, stylistic, poetic, and deal with the complications of race, gender, cruelty, and sex positive themes. The late Douglas Turner Ward of the original Negro Ensemble Theater Co, called her work, “a cornucopia of imaginative theatricality, written with enormous energy and poetic sensibility.” Crystal Field, Founder and Executive Director of Theater for the New City, heralds Melanie as “one of the greatest American playwrights of our time.” Melanie Goodreaux was mentored by the legendary Steve Cannon of A Gathering of the Tribes, and Dramaturge Anthony T. Saralegui. Her plays were first produced at the House of Tribes Theater, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and then by Absolute Theater Company with Charles Drew, Jr. and his eclectic crewe of “Munsters.” Some of her plays are Walter. Bullets. And Binoculars, Saydee and Deelores, The White Blacks, Enough Vo5 for the Universe, Controle’s Predicament, Katrina Who?!, SWAP, The Popes of Farragut Street, and Rita Is the Goat which was nominated for Outstanding Ensemble by AUDELCO 2025. She is the author of Black Jelly, and adapted the book A Poem As Big As New York City. She teaches creative writing and drama with White Bird/Creative Theatrics and Theater for the New Audience in New York City.