The requests keep coming:
When will Rosebud run the playwriting course again?

The highly popular course THR 333: Introduction to Playwriting will commence on June 3, 2008. Applications are now being accepted.

If you’ve already taken this course, you know how great it is. Please let anyone that you think will benefit from the training know about this opportunity. For those of you out of town, you should know that the course is delivered by correspondence with two on-location workshops, so even if you do not live in Rosebud, you can easily participate. Best of all, this is an incredible opportunity to train with Lucia Frangione, multiple award-winning playwright, whose 19 plays have been produced across Canada and internationally.

Please refer to the information below for more details about the course. Applicants need to have a Diploma in Theatre Arts (2 year theatre training) or provide a writing resume with samples. Lucia Frangione is a skilled dramaturge who challenges writers at various levels of experience.

Deadline for applications is May 15, 2008. Payment is due on June 3rd. Please apply by contacting the Registrar of RSA at education@rosebudtheatre.com. Questions are welcome!

THR 333 Introduction to Playwriting
Instructor: Lucia Frangione
June 4, 2008 to March 11, 2009
Face to face workshop: July 21 & 22
Budding Playwrights Festival: February 2009 (dates TBA)

Description
THR 333 Introduction to Playwriting is a highly personalized playwriting course intended to educate, nourish and direct the strengths, challenges, and goals of each writer and her/his unique voice. The course is taught through e-mail correspondence supplemented by a face to face workshop in Rosebud with the instructor. The students are given materials to study and established plays to read, while the majority of instruction takes the form of one-on-one e-mail dramaturgy of student generated writing. Students will write short scenes and develop a 20-30 minute One Act play, drafting the piece from start to finish. The One Act plays are thoroughly dramaturged and presented in a public reading (Feb. 2009) followed by a final dramaturgical session at the end of the course.

Note: This course requires a time commitment of minimum 4 hours per week for 10 months. The course moves at a swift pace with assignments on a weekly basis.

Cost: $600 (3 credits)

Applicants
Rosebud students who have completed Mentorship Level I are eligible to apply as well as other participants with theatre and/or writing background (resume required). The course accepts a maximum of 8 participants. Write to the Registrar at education@rosebudschoolofthearts.com

Lucia Frangione is an internationally produced playwright whose work garners critical acclaim for its dark comedy, bold feminine voice, and critical examination of faith. Winner of the CAEA Stage West Emerging Artist Award, the Gordon Armstrong, and the Sydney Risk playwright awards, Frangione’s accessible and entertaining plays include among others Chickens, Holy Mo, Cariboo Magi, and Espresso.

Click to read an article by Lucia Frangione about this year's Budding Playwrights Festival

RSA Choir Concerts:
Sunday, April 13, 3:00pm at Rosebud Church:
Rosebud Children's Choir
singing The Best Little Theatre in Town by Sally k. Albrecht and Jay Althouse
Rosebud Choral
Rosa Cantorum
Rosebud Masterworks Choir
singing Famous Opera Choruses
Freewill offering will be taken

Tuesday, April 15, 7:30pm at Kaleidoscope Theatre, Drumheller:

with Rosebud Chorale, Rose Cantorum, and Rosebud Masterworks Choir

Tickets at the door:
$10 adults
$7 students & seniors
kids under 12 free

RSA Acting Students Audition at Emerge

In April, theatre graduates from across the province will be auditioning for Alberta's Artistic Directors, Freelance Directors and Casting Directors, vying for the chance to be noticed and hopefully employed. The annual Emerge auditions, hosted by Theatre Alberta, take place on April 14th in Edmonton & April 21st in Calgary. Proudly representing Rosebud School of the Arts this year will be the following graduating students, with Rosebud credits listed after their name:

Travis Friesen (Butterfinger's Angel..., Precious Bane, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat, Tent Meeting, St. Nick's, On Golden Pond)

Aaron Krogman (Butterfinger's Angel..., Precious Bane, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat, St. Nick's, As You Like It, The Good Doctor, The Quarrel, The Homecoming)

Lindsey Sine (Butterfinger's Angel..., Precious Bane, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat, St. Nick's..., The Good Doctor)

Rachel Peacock (Butterfinger's Angel..., Precious Bane, St. Nick's..., As You Like It)

Scott Schreiner (Butterfinger's Angel..., Precious Bane, St. Nick's..., Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat, On Golden Pond, The Good Doctor)

Rebecca Wohlgemuth (Butterfinger's Angel..., Precious Bane, The Way of the Wolf, The Homecoming).

Please keep these individuals in your thoughts and prayers as they prepare for their first step into the professional world.