Screenwriting Workshop “Interior: Mount Vernon — Writing About Where We Live” with Jonathan Tazewell and Hao Zhou
Date: 04/03/2025
Time: 06:00 pm-07:30 pm
Location: Mount Vernon Library, 201 N Mulberry Street, Mount Vernon OH, 43050
Organizer: Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
knoxwrites1@gmail.com
https://www.knox.net/

About the event:

As part of the Library’s NEA Big Read program, screenwriters Jon Tazewell and Hao Zhou will lead a workshop on the art and craft of writing for film. The session will cover some basics of screenwriting and explore the 2025 NEA Big Read theme “Where We Live.”  Zhou and Tazewell are featured guest speakers at the Library’s bi-montly Authors Anonymous meetup on Thursday, April 3 from 6:00 P.M. – 7:30 P.M. in the Multipurpose Room at the Mount Vernon Library, 201 North Mulberry Street in Mount Vernon. No prior experience is required, but attendees should bring something to write with or on. This workshop is open to writers age 18 and up. All welcome! 

 

Hao Zhou (pronounced ‘How Joe’) is a filmmaker and an assistant professor of film at Kenyon College. Zhou’s work includes narrative and nonfiction films that have screened at diverse venues and platforms, including the Cleveland International Film Festival, South by Southwest, PBS, and others. An alum of the University of Iowa, Zhou often makes films in the U.S. Midwest as well as China.

 

Jonathan Tazewell is the Thomas S. Turgeon Endowed Professor of Drama and Film at Kenyon College specializing in theater and film directing and cinema studies. He is a filmmaker, theater director, and actor.  His recent feature film, Gotta Get Down To It, was screened at the MNFF in 2020 and has also won awards at the 10th Annual Charlotte Black Film Festival and Columbus International Black Film Festival. Tazewell was a recipient of the Trustees’ Teaching Excellence Award from Kenyon in 2004.  He is also a long-standing member of the faculty in the African Diaspora Studies Program. Tazewell is a graduate of Kenyon College where he received his A.B. in chemistry, and holds a Masters of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts in Directing for Theater, Video, and Cinema. Tazewell has been a professional actor and director for over 30 years, and has worked for the Arden Theater Company, the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia Theater Company, Santa Clarita Shakespeare Theater, CATCO, and Red Herring Theater Company.

 

INCLEMENT WEATHER PLAN: 

  • In the event of inclement weather, we’ll move this workshop to Zoom. Patrons can access the zoom event at https://tinyurl.com/yd9b5cv9 
  • If necessary, the inclement weather plan will be activated by 11:00 A.M. on the event date via a pre-recorded message at (740) 392-BOOK extension 8259. 
  • If patrons wish to be notified of the inclement weather plan via email, please contact knoxwrites1@gmail.com by 11:00 A.M. on the date of the event. 

This event is part of our NEA Big Read program celebrating Interior Chinatown and exploring the theme “Where We Live.” For more information about the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County’s NEA Big Read programs, visit www.knox.net, email knoxwrites1@gmail.com or call (740) 392-BOOK extension 8259.