CELEBRATIONWORKS

Denver, Colorado

"Imagination is the gateway to the soul"     Carol Roper, founder Celebrationworks

 

         

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Carol Roper is an award-winning writer who has written for and worked with, Academy Award-winning actor, Robin Williams, and sold television movies and feature films. She has taught writing at the University of Southern California, and at the University of California, San Diego, Extension. She received the Office for Advanced Drama Research Rockefeller Honorarium, for her full-length anti-war play, The Current Rage which had productions in San Francisco, and in New York. Her recent plays: Alligators is a comedy with a metaphysical twist about an estranged brother and sister gathered for the long announced demise of their mother, only to find her alive and rambunctious with an alleged alligator roaming the Maryland neighborhood, and a mysterious alligator hunter in pursuit

Shakespeare’s Brother, (The story of Will Shakespeare's missing teen years as told by his younger better looking bother, Gil)  weaves together real life people from young Shakespeare’s life with fictional characters from his plays as two fiercely opposite teenage Shakespeare brothers band together to fight pirates, learn martial arts and crash a wedding party, before returning home to save their father from a vicious creditor in a hilarious courtroom scene.  

Carol is a supporting member of the American Academy of Poets, a member of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, a member of the Colorado Theatre Guild,  and a lifetime member of the Writer’s Guild of America.

Celebrationworks presents 

Dec. 18 to 31st, 2008 at the Vintage Theatre in Denver.  Humbug! A show that makes light of the holidays. Featuring original works by Award-winning playwrights: Aaron Adair, Ken Crost, Kristine McGovern, Mark Ogle, Carol Roper, and Edward Crosby Wells. An evening of original plays that offer a comic alternative to traditional holiday shows. 

OPENS: December 18, 2008    

Vintage Theatre 2119 E 17th Avenue, Denver, Co 80206.                                     Reserve:303 839 1361 

 

 

 

 

 

(The story of Will Shakespeare’s missing teen years as told by his younger better-looking brother, Gil)

  Celebertionworks presents a theatrical comedy for kids, teens and adults!

(Knowledge of Shakespeare optional)

Enjoy a summer’s evening of comedy performed as it was in Shakespeare’s time, outdoors.

7 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008   at the Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura Street, Littleton, Colorado

 Directed by Sarah Roshan, and written by award-winning writer, Carol Roper, who has written for Academy Award-winning actor, Robin Williams, the cast includes notable Denver actors; Andy Anderson, Ed Cord, Hannah Marie Hines, Haley Johnson,  Robert Kramer, Lisa Mumpton, Carol Rust, Reynelda Snell, and three outstanding young actors from the Denver School of the Arts: Zachary Cantor as Will; Adrian Ulm as Gil; and Akil LuQman as young Othello

 

 

 

God’s Bread (Baked Fresh Daily) was published by Emerson Press in 2000 to generally favorable reviews.

 

 

 

"God’s Bread (Baked Fresh Daily), is a funny, fast-paced, mind expanding and inspirational novel." Rev. Dr. Christian Sorensen,  "Soar: Spiritual Guidance for Overcoming Life's Turbulence."

 

"An entertaining story of redemptive love and the nature of faith." Rev. Gary Anderson, Methodist Campus Minister, University of California, San Diego

 
Questions, comments, class or workshop locations  or to suggest a workshop or class,  contact us at: info@celebrationworks.org