Playwrights Realm 2018 writing fellow Else C. Went leads a week-long development workshop of their play Saving Throw: Part One, Initiative from November 13th through 17th. With guidance from director Emma Went, and producers and artistic staff from the Playwrights Realm, Initiative will be workshopped featuring a cast of young actors - including Greg Cuellar, Josh Caras, Kita Updike, Olivia Rose Barresi, Spencer Hamp, Andrea Lopez, and Harrison Densmore.
Initiative is the first section in Else C. Went’s two-part ensemble epic on adolescence, set in coastal California at the turn of the millennium and the dawn of the internet age. Initiative will be presented in April 2019 as part of the INK’D New Play Festival.