ACTING FOR WRITERS: A Special MidnightRose Season 3 Event with Elizabeth Bruce and Robert Michael Oliver
Sat, Aug 22
|Tenley-Friendship Library
Esther Productions Inc. opens Season 3 of MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry & Prose with this special interactive, generative workshop designed to improve your writing and your presentations. REGISTRATION & ATTENDANCE MUST BE FOR BOTH SESSIONS. SEATING IS LIMITED.
Time & Location
Aug 22, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
About the event
SPECIAL NOTE: REGISTRATION MUST BE FOR BOTH SESSIONS:
August 22--Workshop #1 — Writing Through the Actor’s Lens
This workshop helps writers deepen narrative texture by borrowing from the actor’s study of human behavior. Through guided, generative prompts and examples, participants explore a character’s desire or objective; obstacles or conflicts; given circumstances (external conditions); and the character’s movement, gestures, and facial expressions to create more vivid, embodied writing that unites psychological intention with concrete, sensory detail.
August-Workshop #2 — Writing Through the Theatre Artist’s Lens
This session expands upon the actor’s toolkit to include the full palate of the theatre artist’s toolkit. Specifically, we’ll guide prose writers and poets through generative exercises to include the many elements of “stage picture” (or “screen picture” to reference film): scenic and costume design, props, music and sound, mood or lighting, gestures and facial expression, stillness/silence, and pacing/tone.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADERS: