Playwrights Horizons and Think!Chinatown  present a free playwriting workshop!

Turn your Chinatown images, insights, raps, rhymes and rhythms into characters and scenes for the stage! Sign up today for a free, 90-minute Playwriting workshop with playwright/author, songwriter and performer Alvin Eng! Through group and individual playwriting exercises, we will write, create and cultivate character monologues and scenes that reflect our unique and shared visions and experiences. Enrollment is limited and a free dinner follows the workshop! The workshop is from 3-4:30PM, and complimentary dinner is from 4:30-5:30PM.

All levels of writing experience are welcome! This free workshop will be followed by a complimentary dinner.
Please reach out to community@phnyc.org with any questions.

Playwrights Horizons is an Off-Broadway theater that produces world and regional premieres of new plays by living writers.

ALVIN ENG is a native NYC playwright/author, songwriter, educator and performer. His plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway, in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.

His plays include the solo works, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN (Or How I Kicked Punk) and THE LAST EMPEROR OF FLUSHING, the musicals, THE LAST HAND LAUNDRY IN CHINATOWN and THE GOONG HAY KID, as well as THREE TREES: A Portrait of Alberto Giacometti, the first of his Portrait Plays of historical dramas about artists that was published by No Passport Press. Alvin is also the editor/author of the oral history/performance text anthology, TOKENS? The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage. He is currently a New York Public Library Long Term Fellow––developing a companion book to his acclaimed memoir, OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage. He was recently appointed to the Artist Advisory Committee of the New York Foundation for the Arts.