FIRST SESSION June 1, 2026
Belmar Arts Council is pleased to announce they will be hosting Playwrights’ Collective, a workshop for local playwrights to develop original work.
Meeting each Monday at 7pm at Belmar Arts Council, the workshop will foster all genres of plays and focus on character development, character relationships, exposition, action, the use of dialogue to move the story forward, dramatic tension, and more. This is a non-competitive community environment for playwrights to hear their work and get feedback from fellow playwrights and audience members.
Belmar Arts Council is pleased to announce they will be hosting Playwrights’ Collective, a workshop for local playwrights to develop original work.
Meeting each Monday at 7pm at Belmar Arts Council, the workshop will foster all genres of plays and focus on character development, character relationships, exposition, action, the use of dialogue to move the story forward, dramatic tension, and more. This is a non-competitive community environment for playwrights to hear their work and get feedback from fellow playwrights and audience members.
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Lisa Ellex
A third-generation Greenwich Village native, Lisa is an actress, vocalist, award-winning playwright, filmmaker and columnist. With roots in the theatre as an actress and playwright, Lisa crossed over to television to select programming for the launch of HBO's COMEDY CHANNEL. She wrote and produced numerous junkets there before moving to COMEDY CENTRAL where she wrote guest segments for comedian Allan Havey's talk show Night After Night. Other TV production credits include, The Cosby Show, The Ellen Burstyn Show, CBS Movie of the Week, Top Cops, and Night Music with David Sanborn & Jools Holland. In her directorial debut short, Lisa took home the “Best Director” award for her short film, Angela, at the 2025 Jersey Shore Film Festival. The film also won “Best Actress“ at the 2025 Long Island International Film Expo for Angela Pieteopinto’s performance in the title role. A film version of her award–winning one-act play, The A-Word, starring Brian O’Halloran, Angela Pietropinto, and Diana Devlin is in post-production. When she’s not writing, Lisa enjoys singing in big bands and small jazz ensembles. |
