The Way of Story
Dates: 6/11/2011 - 6/18/2011
Location: Tuscan Renaissance Center
Instructor: Catherine Ann Jones
Price: $2595 
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Catherine Ann Jones
Catherine Ann Jones has played major roles in over fifty productions both in and out of New York City, as well as television and film. Disappointed by the lack of good roles for women, she wrote a play about Virginia Woolf (On the Edge) which won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Ten of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical) and The Women of Cedar Creek, have won several awards and are produced both in and out of New York.
Her films include The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards & Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), Angel Passing (Hume Cronyn & Teresa Wright) which played at Sundance and went on to garner fifteen awards here and abroad, and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel.
A Fulbright Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught writing at The New School University, University of Southern California, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and the Esalen and Omega Institute. She has a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Myth from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Her memoir/book on writing, The Way of Story, is now required in several writing programs as New York University. Ms. Jones lives in Ojai, California, leads The Way of Story and Heal Yourself with Writing workshops throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
For online courses visit www.dailyom.com, for workshop schedule, blog, and story/script consultant service please visit www.wayofstory.com.
Catherine`s book on writing: The Way of Story
“Catherine Ann Jones is in possession of a powerful talent…
nothing is more rare in my opinion” - Norman Mailer
The Way of Story is an integrative approach to writing narrative illustrated with insights from the author’s own professional and personal journey. No other writing book offers the solid craft to guarantee a good story along with the intangible inner dimensions of writing. The Way of Story feeds the writer`s soul while providing practical tips on making a successful and commercial screenplay, play, novel, or memoir. Craft alone is not enough. It is the integration of both solid storytelling craft and experiential inner discovery that makes this book on writing unique. www.wayofstory.com
"Catherine Ann Jones is a wonderful, insightful, and talented writer who has the most unique gift a writer needs: the ability to speak in the voice of characters about whom we care. Catherine has a great insight into the human condition."
- Stephen Simon, Oscar- winning producer, What Dreams May Come
“The Way of Story gives writers a rich grounding in story structure and craft, while helping them free their inner voices and visions. Catherine Ann Jones has presented a rare gift to writers throughout the world. She has made a difference.”
- Ron Bozman, Oscar-winning producer, The Silence of the Lambs
“Catherine Ann Jones is an important writer and has an extraordinary power.”
- Julie Harris, actress
In every page, we find something that teaches, delights, or opens the soul to creative depth. Catherine Ann Jones offers a masterwork based on her long, astonishing career. And we are the beneficiaries.
- Dianne Skafte, Ph.D., former Academic Dean, Pacific Graduate Institute; author, Listening to the Oracle
The Way of Story offers a transformative journey for anyone interested in the power of stories, the craft of writing - or the deeper mysteries of the human experience.
- Betty Sue Flowers, Ph.D., President, LBJ Library; editor, The Power of Myth with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
"I couldn`t get to sleep & found myself reading it without stopping...not only because of the wonderful information on craft, but because it really is your journey & sprang from your life experiences! THE WAY OF STORY is quite amazing & you have much to be proud of, while we, the readers & students, have much to be thankful for!”
- Kathie Fong Yoneda, Paramount Studios, author, The Script-Selling Game
"As in mounds of vividly painted autumn leaves, The Way of Story allows its users to romp endlessly in a continuing world of discovery, imagination, and innovation. Its resources for the storyteller are limitless and lasting."
- Leslie Lee, faculty, NYU writing programs & Broadway playwright
"We`ve become lopsided living only in our heads. Writing, in order to serve the soul, must integrate outer craft with the inner world of intuition and feeling."
- Catherine Ann Jones, New York Times