THE OVEN was Personal Pizza Party’s flagship program: an 8-week writers' circle for 5-early career playwrights to develop new short plays.
Elif co-produced The Oven in 2024. Together with Personal Pizza Party, we introduced The Whisk workshops! At our Whisk sessions, 5 directors and 8 actors joined us in directing exercises using the writers' text. Directors pair off and test out each other's directing practices on the same scene; actors offer candid feedback on which directing styles resonate with them; and writers witness how their scenes come to life differently based on the director's hand.
The Oven culminated in two nights of short play readings at the Brick Aux and East Village Basement in June 2024.