Our workshop will provide you with the opportunity to interact with other playwrights and theatre professionals and receive feedback over the 4 month course, meeting once a month. At the end, you will have a polished script, ready for submission. You will receive valuable insight on how and where to submit your script for production consideration, and your play will receive a reading, to add to your resume. The professional connections and know-how you will gain at this workshop is INVALUABLE!

This workshop is by invitation to playwrights who have created and submitted full length plays of merit to Horse Trade. The workshop will consist of four monthly meetings covering ground rules for critique, characterization, editing, and visualization of the script. The workshop process will culminate in an excerpt of 10 minutes directed and performed by The Drafts Ensemble. Based on audience feedback and the input of workshop facilitators, one workshop member will be chosen for a full length reading as part of the Made at Horse Trade Festival in August 2012.

The Drafts are a non-equity ensemble of actors who are relatively new to the New York theater scene.

The Director's Lab is a group of emerging, professional New York directors who will give feedback and direct an excerpt from your play.

Heidi Grumelot is the Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group. She is co-creator and producer of the monthly storytelling show TOLD and the founding director of The Drafts, an acting ensemble responsible for development of over forty original plays to date as part of a monthly reading series. Heidi's New York directing credits include Donnie and the Monsters at UNDER St. Marks, punkrock/lovesong at The Brick, Dido and Aeneas with The New York Collective of Performing Arts at The West End Theater and The Boston Early Music Festival, A River Pure for Healing and An Absolutely Perfect Life at UNDER St Marks, Accidents Do Happen, Tom's Things, and Turning the Glass Around in The Red Room.

Assistant director credits include Antony and Cleopatra, Love's Labour's Lost, and A Christmas Carol for the American Shakespeare Center. She has also directed productions in Michigan, Virginia, and Mexico. Prior to working at Horse Trade, Heidi worked for Laura Stanzyck Casting and The Public Theater's Casting Department. Casting Assistant credits include Impressionism on Broadway, The Cripple of Inishman at Atlantic Theater Company, The Shawshank Redemption at The Gaiety Theater in Dublin, Holiday Garland at The Westport Country Playhouse, and Hamlet and Hair at Shakespeare in the Park.