2025 Summer Workshop Program
Our Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
Please reflect on your social and economic position before choosing a tuition level at checkout.
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Every story we tell is the myth of our lives struggling to be heard. This workshop is designed to explore your individual myth, give voice to your emotional, political, and personal truth, and create a structure that will carry your story into the world. As LGBTQIA+ people of the 21st Century, we have a unique opportunity to challenge the familiar myths about queerness and expand the narratives that have shaped and/or silenced our stories for centuries. Whether you’re working on a screenplay, a TV pilot, a stage play, a solo show, a novel or a memoir, come to the workshop with the story you want to explore with a collective of queer storytellers. This workshop is designed to help you excavate your personal beliefs, and it provides you with the tools necessary to create a story and the structure to support it. We don’t do any actual writing in the class. Instead, you present your story to the class, and then together we map your story and explore what you want your story to convey. I find that the principles of story-making are easier to understand when they are applied to another participant’s story, thus making the workshop setting an important aspect of the learning process.
Please submit a one or two page description of the story that you’re wanting to workshop (as much or as little as you know) and indicate the medium (screenplay? novel? solo show? play? etc.) to ssiegel@fawc.org by June 2.
Biography
Celeste Lecesne (he/they) wrote the short film Trevor, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, and is co-founder of The Trevor Project. He adapted Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of The City for Showtime, was a writer on the series Will & Grace and has written three novels for young adults. As an actor, Celeste has appeared on TV, in film, on and Off Broadway, and is best known for his award-winning solo shows. He is the co-founder of The Future Perfect Project, a national arts initiative for LGBTQ+ youth, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2023.
