Ruth Kirschner will be offering a Writing Workshop on Saturday, April 2 from 2 to 5 p.m. following the opening night of her play Whippoorwill.

The workshop will be in the President Circle Room of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown on the campus of Centenary University. This event is free to the public but reservations are strongly encouraged. For those attening the Writing Workshop, tickets to the show will be $10 each for the Saturday, April 2 performance at 8 p.m. For more information, go to centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company’s box office at (908) 979-0900.

Ruth Kirschner has been a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, CulturalDC’s Source Festival, and the Humana Short Play Festival. Her one-act play Fifteen Notes was produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Other one-acts have been produced at L.A.’s West Coast Ensemble; the Actor’s Theatre of Santa Rosa; San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theatre; The San Francisco Fringe Festival (2 Best Play Awards); SF’s Phoenix Theater; The Marin Fringe Festival (2 Best Play Awards). Her full-length play Remember Me was part of Centenary Stage Company’s 2004 Women Playwrights Series, and her play Whippoorwill, also in the WPS in 2019, is now being produced by CSC, opening March 31.

Her play “The Field” has been nominated for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Wanting to insure that all voices are acknowledged, the playwright tells us that the play is “based on verbatim stories told to me by incarcerated veterans currently serving time at San Quentin prison.”

This event is part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance 2022 Stages Festival, made possible by support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National endowment for the Arts; Bank of America; The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; New Jersey Historical Commission. www.njtheatrealliance.org/stages

Centenary Stage Company remains committed to the health and safety of our community and adheres to all requirements set forth by the State of New Jersey. For more information regarding CSC COVID-19 policies and policy updates, visit centenarystageco.org/faq.

The 2021-22 season of performing arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the generous support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Sandra Kupperman Foundation, the John and Margaret Post Foundation, and CSC corporate sponsors, including Platinum Season Sponsor The House of the Good Shepherd, Silver Sponsors Hackettstown Medical Center Atlantic Health System, Home Instead Senior Care (Washington), and Fulton Bank, Visions Federal Credit Union and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.