Caron Levis was born, raised and currently lives in New York City, where she enjoys scribbling both fiction and plays. Her first children’s picture book, Stuck With The Blooz, will be released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in fall of 2012. Her story Permission Slip, published in Fence magazine and listed in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, will be included in Fraudulent Artifacts, a new anthology by W.W. Norton. New stories can be found in The New Guard Review and Persea Books’ Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories. Caron’s plays were voted Audience Favorites two years in a row at the Estrogenius Festival; Flight Risk went on to be selected for the 36th annual Samuel French OOB Festival. Caron has been awarded fellowships by Summer Literary Seminars and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation.
Caron has her MFA in Creative Writing from the New School University. and a B.A. from Tufts University. She has studied acting at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Moscow Art Theatre, and the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio. She is an assistant teacher in the New School’s MFA program, the writing coach for the Writers-In-Performance workshop at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and loves teaching her original workshop Stage-To-Page: acting techniques for writers. Caron has worked for several years as a Teaching Artist using creative drama and writing to teach self awareness, communication, and literacy skills to kids of all ages, teachers, and parents in both private and public schools in all five boroughs of NYC.
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There is much for a writer to steal from the craft of acting.
Actors, like writers, are storytellers and master acting teachers have discovered many tools for developing character, plot, emotional truth, and even coaxing the muse. In this workshop acting techniques have been adapted for the creative writer as a new, immediate and practical approach to the page.
Participants will be introduced to methods based on the works of Michael Chekhov, Stanislavski, and Lenard Petit. We will be writing as well as putting down our pens to move through different acting exercises. Shy, introverted scribes need not be afraid—we won't be performing or putting anybody in the spotlight. All you need is your pen, paper, and sense of play. Come peak behind the curtain and find something to steal.
Stage-To-Page can be offered as anything from a one day workshop to a year long course. Private sessions are also possible. Please contact Caron if you are interested in booking workshops at your College, University, or writing center in the U.S.A. or internationally. If you are interested in finding out about future NYC workshops, please email your name and contact information.
writing: prose, scripts, adaptations, educational materials, copy.
arts education: residencies, curriculum/program development, staff development, consulting.
coaching/tutoring: creative writing, public speaking, social, communication, interpersonal skills.
workshops: STAGE-TO-PAGE: acting techniques for writers
Marriage: Caron is a licensed New York State wedding officiant. (she’ll marry you—but you must provide the spouse.)
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