Chicago Public School's Office of Teaching & Learning presents "Playwrighting: A Rock in a Hard Place"  lead by award wining playwright Gloria Bond Clunie.  Today's session is the third in a series of exchanges between Chicago Public School teachers and Chicago theater professionals.

Brunch is served at 9am followed by the playwrighting workshop and exercises and a piano concert.

GLORIA BOND CLUNIE: is the award-winning playwright of Shoes, Quark, Sweet Water Taste, Living Green, Mirandy and Brother Wind and Dream: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. An original member of the Playwriting Ensemble at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago, IL).   Ms. Clunie received the 1995 Joseph Jefferson Chicago Theatre Award for Best New Work/Adaptation, the 1994 Theodore Ward African- American Playwriting Award & the 1999 AATE Distinguished Play Award for her play North Star, which premiered at Victory Gardens. She holds an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University, and was a full-time Creative Drama Specialist in the Evanston, IL school district.

Register with Jackie Stone 773-529-2690 or jstone@emeraldcitytheatre.com

Chopin Salon events are supported in part by Wspolnota Polska, Zywiec Beer, Kasia Deli and Oakmill Bakery.   To have your own Salon event please contact us at 773-278-1500.