<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The New York Writers Institute SUNY Albany is offering a free workshop, open to the general public, on Adapting Literary Works for the Stage and Screen. Prior experience is desirable but NOT required. The workshop is scheduled for 12 Monday evenings from Sept. 20 through December 6, 2004, from 6-9PM. The instructor is W. Langdon Brown, Associate Professor of Theater, who was recently granted permission from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo to do a stage adaptation of the novel, Mohawk. The workshop may be taken as a noncredit course (no cost), or for undergraduate credit at the University at Albany (at normal<BR>
cost). The application deadline is Aug 25 by mail and Aug 30 at 4PM in<BR>
person. No faxes or emails will be accepted.<BR>
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The New York State Writers Institute is a state-sponsored literary arts<BR>
organization based in Albany, NY, and headed by Pulitzer Prize-winning<BR>
author William Kennedy. Visit our website at www.albany.edu/writers-inst/<BR>
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Your members may also be interested in the following theater-related events<BR>
(all of them free and open to the public):<BR>
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Thurs. Sept. 30, 7PM: Peter Sheridan, noted Irish playwright, founder of<BR>
Dublin's leading avant-garde theater, director of the film Borstal Boy<BR>
(2000), brother of Oscar-winning director Jim Sheridan, will speak about his<BR>
first novel in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center at the<BR>
University at Albany's uptown campus. He will also give an informal seminar<BR>
at 4:15 in Humanities 354 at the University at Albany's uptown campus.<BR>
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Friday, October 22, 7PM: Neil LaBute, controversial director of plays and<BR>
films. Films have included In the Company of Men (1997), as well as The<BR>
Shape of Things (2003), Possession (2002), Nurse Betty (2000), and Your<BR>
Friends and Neighbors (1998), will talk about his work following a screening<BR>
of The Shape of Things at Page Hall on the University at Albany's downtown<BR>
campus. He will also give an informal seminar at 4:15 in the Recital Hall of<BR>
the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany's uptown campus.<BR>
Friday, November 12, 8PM: Roddy Doyle, major Irish novelist who adapted his<BR>
novels for the screen, including The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van,<BR>
will talk about his work at Page Hall on the University at Albany's downtown<BR>
campus. Prior to the event, on Thurs. Nov. 11, we will screen The Van in the<BR>
same location. Doyle will also give an informal seminar at 4:15 in the<BR>
Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany's<BR>
uptown campus.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
Mark Koplik<BR>
New York State Writers Institute<BR>
LE 320 New Library<BR>
University at Albany<BR>
Albany, NY 12222<BR>
518-442-5626<BR>
FAX: 518-442-5621<BR>
mkoplik@uamail.albany.edu<BR>
www.albany.edu/writers-inst<BR>
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