TRANSPARENT WINDOWS (ON LINE via ZOOM)
You're cordially invited to the CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP to be held on March 27, 2026 @ 18:30-20:00.
Workshop Title: Back to the Body: Image, Gesture, and Playwriting
Speaker: Catherine Rogers (Fulbright Specialist; Playwright; Narrative Medicine Specialist, Columbia U, US)
The language of the event is English.
To register, please click here and fill in the form.
Certificates of attendance will be provided upon request. See the registration form.
ABSTRACT
Where can exquisite attention to the human body take the writer? This 90-minute workshop invites participants into an intuitive, image-driven, embodied writing practice inspired by the work of María Irene Fornés and taught through the lens of narrative medicine. Playwright and narrative medicine specialist Catherine Rogers will guide workshoppers in crafting monologues or scenes from image and imagination, freeing them from the constraints of predetermined ideas. Through timed writing, brief embodiment exercises, and a chance to hear each other’s work, participants will explore the core narrative medicine movements of attention, representation, and affiliation, encouraging deep listening, creative risk-taking, and discovery. Open to students of all disciplines as well as writers, clinicians, educators, and artists, the workshop requires no prior experience. Participants will leave with new pages, practical generative tools, and stories that may take them by surprise.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Catherine Rogers, MFA, MS is Associate Director and Lecturer in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and Co-Director of Narrative Medicine International. .A playwright, actor, and narrative medicine specialist, her work bridges performance, education, and health care, with particular emphasis on creative writing as a means of developing cognitive, linguistic, and clinical competence. Her teaching methods are deeply influenced by her training with American playwright María Irene Fornés, whose experimental and generative approaches to writing shape her pedagogy. Catherine teaches in Columbia’s MS in Narrative Medicine program and at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons where she designed the medical school elective in playwriting. She also teaches at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and facilitates seminars for clinicians at Mount Sinai Hospital. She has delivered invited lectures, workshops, and seminars across the United States and internationally. including Fulbright residencies in Greece (2009, 2013, 2026) and Malaysia (2024). Her creative and scholarly work appears in TDR/The Drama Review, Voices Made Flesh (U Wisconsin Press), Our Changing Journey . . . Reshaping Death (Prager), the Gettysburg Review and others. A James A. Michener Fellow in Playwriting, her plays have been produced at Cleveland Public Theatre, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, Athens Centre, 29th Street Playwrights Collective (New York, Athens) and many others. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild of America.
