Community Bake-Off Writing Workshop

Inspired by the legendary playwriting exercise created by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, we invite you to join us for a creative, fast-paced, and immersive Bake-Off facilitated by our visiting resident playwright Sean Dunnington.

Participants will engage in written exercises on an assigned theme and elements in response to plays and works of art within a 48-hour period. There’ll also be a gathering after to read the scenes everyone has come up with in a shared celebration of creativity.

Open to playwrights of all levels. Build your writing toolkit and sharpen your craft through this 2-day workshop!

BIOGRAPHY

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SEAN DUNNINGTON is a is a queer/jewish playwright from Hawai’i Island. His work has been presented Off-Broadway, in regional theatres across the country, local libraries and galleries, state museums, old attics, public radio stations, film festivals, and LGBTQIA+ centers. He’s been in residence with the East-West Center, Waiwai Collective, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Center. He’s been a fellow with the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Orchard Project, Magic Theatre, Creative Labs Hawai’i, California Arts Council, National Collaborative for Health Equity, and Henry Luce Foundation.

He is also the Founding Director of Tree Moss, the first-ever collective for emerging and established playwrights in Hawai’i, which was awarded the Dramatist Guild Foundation’s Catalyst Fellowship. In his free time, Sean facilitates free writing workshops for non-profits, public schools, and community centers across Hawai’i. Sean received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and his BA in Applied Playwriting from the University of Redlands’ Johnston Center for Integrative Studies.

Sean is currently in Singapore as a 2024-2025 Henry Luce Scholar, with a placement at Centre 42 as a Visiting Resident Playwright.