Take a class!
Improv 101
for Shy Queers
with Petey Gibson
Want to try improv but don't know where to start?
Let actor/producer Petey Gibson welcome you into a safe space to be a little idiot, meet new people, and strengthen your ability to speak up.
Improvisation is an incredible practice of being present and connecting to the room around you. Don't worry about being "funny" this is a space to shake off our screaming brains, learn the core principles of improv, and be in community.
$20 / free for Joy Who Lived Performers, Crew and Volunteers
Collaborating in the Writers Room
with Joan Ford
Are you an aspiring tv writer, curious about what life in the writer's room is like? In this workshop you'll get a crash course in the skills needed to succeed in a professional writer's room, including: pitching, giving notes, and being a team player while still letting your comedic voice shine through! Along the way we'll develop a brand new, original sitcom and write the first few pages together, as a room!
$20 / free for Joy Who Lived Performers, Crew and Volunteers
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Registration is now closed for Trans & Non-Binary Acting and LGBTQ Storytelling Workshops with Maddox Pennington. We hope to see you at a future event — join our mailing list to stay updated!
About Your Facilitator
Maddox Pennington (he/they) is the Creative Director of the Trans Conversation Project and Gaybones Productions. He has most recently worked with LA's Native Voices as a playwright and actor; his short play "Reparations ATM" will be included in this year's Festival of Short Plays in April. His work has been read in the 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival, the Theater Viscera Podcast, Off-Off Broadway NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival, the Moving Arts MADLab, the Native American Media Alliance TV Writing Fellowship, and the inaugural Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Boulder, CO. Last year they directed Marilyn Monroe in the Desert with Premiere the Play Podcast. As a writer and director, his plays with majority nonbinary/trans casts have won awards at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (Love Chicken, Annex).
Maddox has taught creative and college writing at Columbia University, American University, and the University of Southern California, where he is currently an Assistant Professor offering first year and advanced writing courses with themes from Native Studies, Queer Studies, Disability Studies, and Society and Technology.