Producing Director Danny Eaton Presenting 6-Week Program for Beginning Playwrights
West Springfield, MA (1/16/24) – Danny Eaton, Producing Director and Founder of the Majestic Theater in West Springfield, has announced the creation of a six-week, in-person playwriting workshop that he will be presenting on Monday evenings at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield from 6:30pm – 8:30pm from February 12 – March 18.
Geared for beginners, “New Words – A Playwriting Workshop” will be open to the first 12 registrants. The workshop will focus on character creation and storytelling for the stage, and will conclude with a presentation of each participant’s work by a core group of Majestic Theater actors before a live audience on Tuesday, March 19. The fee for the workshop is $250.
To register, contact the Majestic Theater at (413) 747-7797 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm/Sat 10am-1pm.
About Danny Eaton
Eaton is the Founder of The Theater Project, which has been in residence in the Majestic Theater since 1997. He attended Holyoke Community College in 1970 after more than four years in the Marine Corps, and subsequently transferred to Amherst College. He earned a Masters Degree in Playwriting from Wesleyan University. His many plays have been seen locally, as well as in New York and Chicago. Eaton was Assistant Director at Stage West, and also a faculty member and Artist-in-Residence at Columbia College in Chicago. He produced and directed the Majestic’s inaugural production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. In addition to producing each season’s calendar of shows, he has also directed many of its productions. Eaton wrote the musicals, The Ride and Anthem, the plays The Island Lily, Iris and The War and Walt Whipple, each of them presented at the Majestic. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Society of the Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC). Eaton is the proud winner of 2009’s New England Theatre Conference Regional Theatre Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre. His latest work, The Ladyslipper, will be presented during the Majestic’s 2023-2024 season.