Lyceum Series: Franky Gonzalez –Generating New Plays: Character, Conflict & Endings

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of playwriting through a series of fast-paced creative exercises designed to generate characters, settings, and dramatic situations. Participants explore empathy, perspective, and personal experience through monologue work while also experimenting with different approaches to structuring and resolving a play’s ending. The session concludes with practical guidance on how emerging playwrights can begin engaging with the broader theatrical community and development landscape.

Franky D. Gonzalez is a Latino playwright based primarily in Dallas. Appearances include The Lark, Sundance, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Berkeley Rep, NNPN, Urbanite, Visión Latino, Orchard Project, New Harmony Project, LAByrinth Theater, Playwrights Center, Ars Nova, Latinx Theatre Commons, Seven Devils, Sewanee, Road Theatre, and Ammunition Theater, among others. Awards: Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Grand Prize, the Judith Royer Award, the Crossroads Project Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative Award, and co-recipient of the MetLife Nuestras Voces Latino Playwriting Award. Production of his work also garnered two Non-Equity Jeff Awards.