Education

The Laboratory Theater of Florida’s award-winning education department offers a variety of classes, workshops, seminars, and camps to allow local actors to optimize their talents with a solid base of skills. This is just one of the reasons The Laboratory Theater of Florida is known as Thinking Theater ® 

The Laboratory Theater of Florida: Education is the proud home of The Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award, an award created to honor one of the co-founders of the Lab – the award-winning playwright Louise Wigglesworth, and Scripts Uncensored, a program dedicated to read and discussed banned scripts. 

A list of the remaining dates for Scripts Uncensored

A pair of lips with the words Scripts Uncensored and The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues

By Eve Ensler

On Sunday, March 30, from 6 pm – 9 pm, the Scripts Uncensored banned scripts reading group will meet for a group reading of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, moderated by Kendra Weaver. A discussion of the play, and why some wish for it to be removed from access follows the reading.

 THE STORY: 

 Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking collection of monologues are sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking monologues and always truthful and thought-provoking.

by Annette Trossbach, Producing Artistic Director, The Laboratory Theater of Florida, using survey results from 100 SWFL theater artists involved in any theatrical production in southwest Florida  (including high school, community, college, and professional theatrical productions) over the last ten years.

“I have had a Director stick his tongue down my throat. I have overheard a Director complaining about my personal boundaries to a cast member he is close with. I have seen text messages that my friends have gotten from a Director who wanted to get with them. And this was in a private high school. I know about intimacy choreographers. I’ve heard about them but I have never had the pleasure of working with one. I think it’s sorely needed in Fort Myers.  PS. My experience in High school theatre arts has left me not sure if I even want to do theatre anymore.”

(One of the written responses to the survey) 

Download the full report here.
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