The Hilton Head Island New Play Festival is an event unlike any other in the Lowcountry. It’s an opportunity for playwrights to receive feedback on their work from audiences outside New York and L.A. and hear a different perspective than they might find elsewhere. It gives Hilton Head residents the chance to hear brand new plays and shape the final product into something that speaks to them and their experiences. SCRC is becoming a testing ground for new voices and is an organization that is committed to nurturing American playwrights. The Hilton Head Island New Play Festival will also strengthen our relationship with the SCRC audience by providing a venue for frank discussion of the work while offering new audience members another way to experience theater on the Island.

“Some people call it “the sane version of Method acting,” said instructor Gail Westerfield, who is preparing to teach a class in Meisner Technique at ARTworks. “The class will be an introduction to the fundamentals of Sanford Meisner’s work, a practice that trains actors to be fully ‘in the moment’ on stage. Through a series of exercises, both experienced and inexperienced actors will learn what Meisner called ‘living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.’”

 In a world of seeming disconnectedness, and racial tension among individuals, MufukaWorks proclaims that as a people we are “ONE BLOOD.”  Elsie Mufuka, Director of MufukaWorks, LLC says, “we all go through trial moments, we all go through happy moments, we all go through sad moments, however we are all connected.”

Elsie Mufuka is a 2008 graduate of Coker College with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in dance and communications, and is also nationally and internationally acclaimed in the U.S., South Africa & Europe.  Mufuka was born in Beaufort, attended elementary school through high school in Beaufort, and has decided to give back to her community by living here and empowering individuals to discover their inner selves so that they can become special contributors to society as well.