Writing: How to Use Tarot to Write Strong Characters

Writing: How to Use Tarot to Write Strong Characters

Learn from Yale Prize winning playwright, Rachel Lynett, on how to build to compelling characters using the major arcana.

By Rachel Lynett Theatre Company

Date and time

Sunday, June 1 · 9 - 10:30am PDT

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

This June Rachel Lynett is teaching Writing: How to Use Tarot to Write Strong Characters! In this 90 minutes, very hands on writing session, we'll explore how the major arcana can make us better storytellers and write even stronger characters. While this event is "free" to make it as accesible as possible, a suggested donation of $25 is preferred. Please reach out to ask how to pay if you're able.


About Rachel Lynett:

Rachel Lynett (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays have been featured at San Diego Rep, Magic Theatre, Mirrorbox Theatre, Laboratory Theater of Florida, Barrington Stage Company, Theatre Lab, Theatre Prometheus, Florida Studio Theatre, Laughing Pig Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Teatro Espejo, the Kennedy Center Page to Stage festival, Theatresquared, Equity Library Theatre, Chicago, Talk Back Theatre, American Stage Theatre Company, Indiana University at Bloomington, Edgewood College, and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Rachel Lynett is also the 2021 recipient of the Yale Drama Prize for their play, Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson). Lynett was 2021 recipient of the National Latinx Playwriting Award and the runner-up for the 2022 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition for their play, Black Mexican. Their play, Missing Socks and a Line of Coke was also a 2024 Blue Ink Award finalist and 2024 O’Neill Playwright conference semi-finalist. Lynett received commissions from Barrington Stage Company, Florida Studio Theatre, and Yale Rep. Recently, Lynett was a staff writer for The Winchesters and is working on an upcoming feature.


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Our mission is to workshop and to produce shows that are written by Rachel Lynett as well as one show a season by an emerging or mid-career playwright who is a womxn of color (WOC) and/or queer whose work is in direct conversation with Lynett’s.