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Our January 27, 2023 featured artist, Gretchen Suárez-Peña.
(Topics: Her journey from engineer to writer; the impact of her Puerto Rican heritage on her writing; advice to Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora professionals who are considering becoming artists.)
Gretchen is a Puerto Rican playwright who is an MFA candidate in the Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama (Class of 2024). Her musical, Melina: A Steampunk Musical Tragedy was an official selection of the 2020 Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival. Other successes include winning the writer's grant and best play at the 2019 Be Original Festival for her play, Trafficked. Also, winning best full-length play at the 2018 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival for her show Conversations in the Car, and first prize for her short play, Dry Spell, at the 30 by Ninety Theatre’s 2018 Night of One Acts Competition. Gretchen's short play, The Arithmetic of Memory, was produced by Conch Shell Productions as part of Blue Light Series Fall 2020; and her play Moonwalker was featured in Reset Series 2021. She is currently a member CSP Artist Collective. www.gretchensuarezpena.com FB @playsbygretchen
Join us and be inspired by her journey from being an engineer to an MFA in Dramatic Writing candidate.
This event was made possible by donations from viewers like you.
Anslem Richardson was our featured CSP Artist Chat guest on Feb 24th.
(Topics: His creative journey as a television writer and actor; his upcoming film FRACTAL; the impact of his Trinidadian heritage on his artistic voice.)
Anslem Richardson is an actor, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.He’s a 2021 WGA Award Nominee for Amazon Prime series THE BOYS, a Writers Fellow at HBO Access, and a Screenwriting Fellow at Film Independent. His screenplay BARDOS earned him the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award in Screenwriting. Anslem also received the Independent Feature Project (IFP) Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting for his screenplay THE SUBWAY STORY.
Anslem is currently a writer/producer on THE BOYS.
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