When the Open Page Becomes the Theatre:
In Person Embodied Workshop with Dr. Cristina A Bejan
Author, playwright, and spoken word poet Dr. Cristina A. Bejan brings her wide-ranging experience as a professional theatre artist into the Geneva Writers Group!
This in-person workshop invites writers to expand how they generate material by stepping beyond the purely introspective page and into embodied, imaginative practice. Drawing on accessible theatre techniques—such as Rodin Statue Work and Theatre of the Oppressed–inspired exercises—participants will engage in short, guided writing prompts alongside light movement, role-based exploration, and collective imagination. These practices encourage writers to look beyond the familiar interior terrain of contemporary creative writing and toward other lives, perspectives, and realities.
Together, we’ll push our imaginations outward, deepening character and story through physical, emotional, and intuitive engagement. The focus is on expanding perspective, enriching narrative possibility, and discovering new entry points into language and voice.
Open to writers of all backgrounds and genres, this workshop offers a dynamic, playful, and supportive space to stretch your craft, ask urgent questions of past and present, and imagine more just and luminous futures.
No theatre experience is required—only curiosity, a favorite pen, and an open heart.
Morning: The writer and creation as work of art. Rodin statue work and Vicente Huidobro’s creacionismo. Exercises, sharing and feedback discussion.
Afternoon: The writer as the other. Theatre of the Oppressed and giving imagination permission to play. Exercises, sharing and feedback discussion.
Saturday, February 21, 10:30 – 16:30
Workshop Fees:
Full day: CHF 70 (Members) | CHF 100 (Non-Members)
Morning only: CHF 50 (Members) | CHF 70 (Non-Members)
NEW! Afternoon only: CHF 50 (Members) | CHF 70 (Non-Members)
An award-winning author, theatre artist and spoken word poet, Dr. Cristina A. Bejan has published books in all of her genres (history, poetry, playwriting). Her plays have been performed in 4 countries and her hit play DISTRICTLAND was bought for TV development. She has appeared as an expert on A&E's The History Channel, C-SPAN, and multiple Romanian TV channels. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Libertatea and ELLE Romania magazine ... among many more print and audio outlets. In NYC she has performed at La MaMA Experimental Theatre Club and launched 5 published plays at The Drama Book Shop. Bejan is the only Rhodes Scholar (since the establishment of the scholarship in 1903) to hold Romanian citizenship and the recipient of the the George Parkin Distinguished Service Award 2025 (Rhodes Trust). She earned her Masters and PhD at the University of Oxford, fully funded by merit-based Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships and many grants. Bejan is also the Executive Director of Bucharest Inside the Beltway, a multicultural arts & culture platform that she co-founded in 2014 to promote local and international inclusive voices in the arts. She is currently working on a number of writing projects while auditing classes at the Sorbonne. Please visit cristinaabejan.com
