Everybody's Got A Story!: How to Write, Direct, and Produce YOURS for Stage

By Tracie A Bonnick

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?

Do you want to become a “PlaywrightPreneur”? That’s what Tracie Bonnick calls a person who wants to write, direct, or produce their very own original theatre production.
In Everybody’s Got a Story, Tracie Bonnick has compiled strategies, information, and valuable resources that

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tracie A. Bonnick
• Release date: Nov 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9780999116234

Tracie A Bonnick

Tracie Bonnick has been married for 25 years to her "best friend", Ricardo who is a super supportive and loving husband. After raising four children and homeschooling her youngest child from birth to college, she faced the empty nest with hope and trepidation. With encouragement from Ricardo and by trusting God, she started Moving4Word Productions, a faith-based theatrical expression company that provides inspirational entertainment. Six years later and with over 25 sold-out shows, her mission is to impact, inspire, and touch the lives of people by proclaiming God's Word through drama. Tracie also hosts weekly, "The PlaywrightPreneurs Podcast", where she interviews Playwrights and other Theatre Professionals who offer sound advice to PlaywrightPreneurs. (Subscribe on iTunes or www.playwrightpreneurs.com) www.TracieBonnick.com

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EVERYBODY’S GOT

A STORY!

How to Write, Direct, and Produce YOURS for Stage

By Tracie Bonnick

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Everybody’s Got a Story!

How to Write, Direct, & Produce YOURS for Stage

©2017 Tracie Bonnick

1st Edition

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This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without permission of the publisher, except as provided by the United States of America copyright law.

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ISBN-10:978-0-9991162-0-3 (Print Version)

Published in the United States of America

Photos: Krishan Gray of KrisGray Studios

(Cover Photo from left to right: Juanita Brown-Starke, Rosetta Johnson, Sylvia McGraw, James Battle III, Deshawnta Williams, Belinda Ronnice Williamson)

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to anyone and everyone who needs the courage to tell their story.

After reading my story, I am confident that you will come to the realization that if she can do it, I can do it too!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for changing my life. I thank my Mom, Cora Wilson for the entrepreneurial spirit that I inherited from her. From as far back as I can remember she has ‘done hair’ in her kitchen and subsequently moved Cora’s Beauty Salon into its own building. I was blessed by the fact that she had never attended a stage play in her life until attending my show that traveled from South Florida to Erie, Pa. Thanks Mom!

I would also like to thank Author/Playwright Sonya Visor for her expert advice and encouragement throughout this project. She has been my unofficial/official new author writing coach/drill sergeant.

Her book, Who I’ve Become is available on www.Amazon.com

Thank you, Regina Walden-Peña, for taking time out of your busy schedule to assist with editing and proofreading.

Thank you to Leisha Ross, my little sister, who is currently serving our country in the US Army in Kuwait. She always believes in anything I set out to do. Even as children when I talked her into having puppet shows in our bedroom and inviting guests to pay 25 cents to attend, she always went along with it. Now see where it has gotten me?

Thank you to my good friend, Stacy Goldsmith-Ison who always takes the time to read through my writing projects and gives me the thumbs up even when I know she must be kidding.

Most of all, a great big THANK YOU to the man who makes it all happen, my loving and supportive husband, Ricardo Boom Boom Bonnick. I could not, and probably would not have done any of this without his support and encouragement during our 25 years of marriage.

Thank you to Juanita Brown-Starke, Lead Stage Manager of Moving4Word Productions for being a proofreader extraordinaire! I am grateful that she takes time to assist in any way she can.

Table of Contents

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWARD

INTRODUCTION

I’VE GOT A STORY FOR YOU…

OFTEN IMITATED. NEVER DUPLICATED

PUTTING IT ON PAPER

HOW LONG IS TOO LONG?

PLAYA PLAYERS

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO I NEED?

WHAT’S IT GOING TO COST ME?

IT’S SHOWTIME!

TOO MUCH TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

DON’T FOOL YOURSELF… BABY!

RESOURCES

FOREWARD

Tracie is very courageous and highly spirited! With a unique and creative imagination, she has been writing plays and skits since school days, and has served alongside me in the marriage ministry for more than a decade. She loves to write, and has a heart for God’s people. Soon after our home-schooled son went off to college, she started taking her gift of writing more seriously.

Tracie believed the Lord laid it upon her heart to write about some female characters coined The Bad Girls of the Bible. She focused on the happenings of their lives and how relevant it is, not just to today’s women, but to all of God’s children.