CollabLab! Consultations! And a reading!

Memorial University is very pleased to welcome Sara Tilley as this year’s Writer-in-Residence. Sara’s inaugural launch reading will be taking place on Thursday September 29th at 8 p.m. in Suncor Hall (Faculty of Music). A reception will follow. Admission is free and all are welcome. Free parking will be available in MUN parking lot 15b. 

 

During the fall semester Sara will be offering one-on-one writing consultations for writers working in prose and playwriting, to review up to 20 pages of work. These sessions will take place on Wednesday afternoons, or by other arrangement. Interested writers are asked to contact sara.tilley@mun.ca to set up an appointment. Space is limited, and so appointments cannot be guaranteed. These appointments are available both for MUN Students and for writers in the general community. 

 

Sara will also be leading a bi-weekly workshop, the CollabLab - experiments in collective writing.

The CollabLab group will meet every two weeks throughout the term to experiment with collective and collaborative writing techniques, culminating in a public presentation of the group’s work in December. This Lab will look at numerous ways of working together as a collective to create a play. Techniques such as improvisation, documentation, small group writing, duo writing, transcription, text collage, and physical character creation will get things started, and the energy of the group will dictate where we end up. 

This is a group experiment, and ideal candidates are people who have a background in writing or theatre in some way, and who are interested in stretching their process, working with new people, and actively contributing their own knowledge and skills to the group. CollabLab will run from 6-9 pm on Thursday Oct. 6, Oct. 20, Nov. 3, Nov. 17 and Dec. 1, with a public showing of the work following the last session. 

To apply, please send a short bio and statement of why you might want to join the CollabLab group to Sara Tilley at sara.tilley@mun.ca by Sept. 23rd, 5 pm. Space is limited to 10 participants maximum. This group is open both for MUN Students and those in the general community. 

Writer in Residence at Memorial University 2016

It's my first day of school too! I am so happy to be the Writer in Residence at Memorial University in St. John's this term, and am looking forward to meeting and working with lots of writers from the university and the city at large. I'll be announcing details soon about one-on-one consultations, workshops, readings and more...but for now, here's my goofy doorway back-to-school shot, a selfie, as I haven't yet trained the cats how to take photos for me.

 

When The Angel of Death Says?...How Are You

Sara Tilley with Emmajane Donnan and Lauren Patten. Photo by Kenneth J. Harvey.

Sara Tilley with Emmajane Donnan and Lauren Patten. Photo by Kenneth J. Harvey.

From the theatre company: Based on her own often hilarious, often traumatic hospital experience, award-winning writer and director Lois Brown reveals the workings of the hospital from a patient’s perspective in her latest play "When The Angel of Death Says ?How Are You…" which opens on August 4 - 7, 2016 at the LSPU Hall in St. John’s and runs for ONLY 4 nights!

This play brings us the hospital from a patient’s perspective. We see things from the viewpoint of the main character, Patience, as she struggles to find a way to cope with her injuries, accident, fears of death and frozen psyche. The play merges the dreamy, surreal experience of the hospital, the drugs, the intimate strangers who are your roommates, and the odd protocols thatconspire to alter a patient’s reality. This is a dark comedy of bedpans and microwavable hats, of IV’s and angel wings.

When The Angel of Death Says ?How Are You... features an all female cast. In the lead role is acclaimed novelist, actress and clown practitioner Sara Tilley. Also featured are Courtney Brown, Monica Walsh, Ruth Lawrence, and nine year-old actresses Emmajane Donnan and Lauren Patten.

This full production of When The Angel of Death Says ?How Are You…, was preceded by a workshop production in May at the Centre for Nursing Studies, which gave the production team and also the audience the chance to experience the play in a real life hospital setting. 

This show is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, Canadian Heritage, and the City of St. John’s. 

 

New website, complete with News!

Here you are, looking through my new website, where I attempt to convey to you all of the different things going on in my creative life. It's hard to get it all sorted into any kind of order, but I have tried! 

My most excellent news is that I am now being represented by Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic Literary Agency. I am very excited to begin this new partnership and thank Stephanie for her belief in my writing.