2025 Summer Workshop Program

Kirsten Greenidge The Glorious Art of the Walk-About July 27 to August 1, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Playwriting Open To All On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

Something many writers have in common is the use of walking as a part of their writing practice. To quote Henry David Thoreau: “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow”. In this generative playwriting workshop, we will use a series of wanderings as a basis for scene generation. Participants will be expected to write during class and outside of class as time allows. This workshop is designed for writers with or without playwriting experience. We will also utilize workshop-style feedback.

Please bring a writing device with the ability to connect to wi-fi; a portable notebook; writing utensil; and footwear for walking (for accessibility purposes we will not do our walk-abouts during class time).

Biography

Kirsten Greenidge is a PEN/America and Obie Award winning playwright whose work often examines the nexus of race, class, and gender using a hyper-realism and supernatural lens. An alum of New Dramatists, the Huntington Playwrights Fellowship, and the Mellon/Howlround Playwright's residency, Greenidge’s work includes The Luck of the Irish, Milk Like Sugar, Baltimore and librettos for Desert Inn and The Anonymous Lover. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston University, where she currently serves as the Director of the School of Theatre. When possible, she enjoys working with her sisters Kerri Greenidge (The Grimkes) and Kaitlyn Greenidge (Liberte).