Sands Hall: “Building Characters”

Sands Hall imparts her unique perspective as novelist, playwright, director, and actor in this lecture on scene and character building. Hall discusses the differences between writing for print and the stage and shares techniques for making "the black marks on the paper jump off the page." Hall offers examples from her career of creating a theatrical or fictional world populated by recognizable and sympathetic characters.

Listen: Sands Hall presents "Building Characters" at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, 6/21/07

Sands Hall is a graduate of The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and holds a second M.F.A. in Acting. She is on the staff of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and teaches for the University of California, Davis, Extension Programs, where she was recently honored with an Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Service Award. She is the author of a book of writing essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer's Craft, and of the novel Catching Heaven, a Ballantine Reader's Circle selection and a Willa Award Finalist: Best Contemporary Fiction. Her produced plays include an adaptation of Alcott's Little Women and the comic/drama Fair Use. This is the seventeenth year Sands has taught for the Festival.

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June 22, 2007
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