Create & Produce Your One-Person Show!
"She makes doing a solo show look easy." -- Backstage"
The ABCs of a One-Person Show
Three Hour Workshop
Are you a natural born storyteller who finds themselves "taking the stage" at dinner parties with tales about your childhood, relationship mishaps or crazy boss? Have you heard people say "You should do your own show!" more than once? Have you toyed with the idea, but don't know how to begin? Then this workshop is for you.
The ABCs workshop will inform you how to turn all the things you love about storytelling into a one-person show.
You will learn:
* The difference between stand up and a solo show
* How to find the story you want to tell
* How to get constructive and safe feedback
* What it takes to get a show from the page to the stage.
You no longer have to wonder what it takes to create a one-person show!
Date: Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Cost: $50
Location: Hollywood
Questions? Email Ruthy
The ABCs of a One Person Show
One Day Intensive
This workshop will introduce you to the tools that have helped Ruthy create, produce and perform three of her own one-person shows. The workshop will demystify the process of starting with a concept for a show and seeing it through to it's fruition.
Through writing exercises and a safe, supportive environment, you will learn how to overcome your fear of not being a writer, how to find your story, create characters, and tell the truth in a fun and unique way. We'll also cover important aspects of producing your show such as budget, booking a theatre, publicity, working with a director, and more.
Creating and performing a one-person show can be scary, but fear doesn't have to stop you from telling your story and having a good time doing it.
Maximum of 8 students.
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Cost: $225 or $195 Early Registration - Before May 10th, 2010
Location: Hollywood
The ABCs of a One-Person Show
Six Week Workshop
This ongoing workshop will give you the opportunity to use the tools learned in the weekend workshop, such as commitment, creative block busters, showing vs. telling, creating characters and the value of going where it feels scary in your writing.
Each week you will present your writing and get specific feedback from me and your fellow writers based on 5 basic questions that help lead you further into your unique story, not someone else's idea of what your story should be. My goal is to help you trust yourself and your writing.
On the sixth week you'll have the opportunity to perform a 10 minute piece of your work-in-progress for an invited audience.
*No experience necessary. Maximum six students.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Dates: Sundays, January 24 - February 28, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Cost: $350 ($325 if you register before January 5, 2010)
Location: Hollywood
Questions? Email Ruthy
The ABCs of a One-Person Show
Advanced Six Week Workshop
Play...dig deep...discover...dance...risk...challenge...reveal...
sing...explore...have fun...uncover...surprise yourself.
This workshop is perfect for students who want to continue developing stories and characters that evolved from the ABCs workshop. It's also ideal for writer/performers who are already in the process of writing their shows and need to refocus their creative energies or are looking for structure and accountability to get their show done.
Each week you will present your writing and get specific feedback from me and your fellow writers based on 5 basic questions that help lead you further into your unique story, not someone else's idea of what your story should be. My goal is to help you trust yourself and your writing.
On the sixth week you'll have the opportunity to perform a 10 - 15 minute piece of your work-in-progress for an invited audience.
*Pre-requisite: ABCs of a One Person Show. Maximum six students.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Dates:
Time:
Cost: $350
Location: Hollywood
Can't make the workshop? No worries!
If you live outside of Los Angeles and New York, private coaching is available in person, via telephone or Skype.
Questions? Email Ruthy
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
"The experience was fantastic. I am scared, excited, inspired...thank you."
-- Antoinette P., LA
"I feel pumped up, and emboldened!"
-- Taffy W., LA
"Well organized; professional; productive and inspired!"
-- Karin D., NY
"I got a ton out of the workshop and feel like I can really do a show now, where as before I had no idea how to start, didn't think I could write or even had a story to tell. To get over all of that is a huge achievement and wouldn't have happened without everything you gave us last weekend. I'm super grateful!"
-- Denise T., LA
"Ruth has an amazing ability to glean the essence from a piece and to instill her love of the form. I came in with nothing but curiosity, and after two days of workshop, I had the beginnings of a show, guided by her adept and encouraging feedback."
-- Cynthia S., LA
"Ruth opened my eyes and heart to my own story. I had many ideas of what story I wanted to tell and it was through her workshop that I got to play in a safe space. The workshop taught me how to keep writing and to have fun writing and how to flesh out those ideas that keep popping up. I am forever grateful. It has been a full year since I took Ruth's workshop and I am up and running a show of my own! I am so thankful I followed my gut to take your workshop. Thank you Ruth. I am forever grateful! Thank you once again for a fabulous workshop. You really created a safe, fun space to allow me to blossom. I got exactly what I needed."
-- Esther F., LA
"I REALLY enjoyed the workshop. Thank you so much!"
-- Lisa S., LA
"Your energy and enthusiasm were inspiring! Also your personal knowledge of the process itself - I feel you gave me several useful tools for proceeding."
-- Elizabeth G., LA
"Your spirit, energy, organization, expectations were all very high and so, so helpful at a difficult time - birthing a piece is not easy."
-- Helen W., LA
"Ruth Otero's workshop will inspire you in many ways. Her teaching method will no doubt call forth your highest creativity and spark your imagination in ways you never expected."
-- Khaya M., DreamWorks, LA
"We were able to cover everything from the producing to the creative and more...Ruth's lectures came from knowledge-based experience and not hypothetical tales."
-- Simone S., LA
"I feel that many "problems" in my writing were hammered out."
-- Mikki Y., NY
Writing is such a lonely endeavor - it's great to have reminders that it's worth it.
-- Megan S., NY