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Angela crafts custom workshops to help participants deepen characters, increase tension, and improve the pace of any manuscript. Individualized, interactive workshops are designed to give writers experience and tools to bring their manuscript to the next level and are suitable for any writer regardless if they have a novel that’s been revised twenty times or simply an outline and an idea.

Events for STUDENTS

Angela is available to speak about writing and research as well as Irena Sendler, ZEGOTA, and the child rescues from the Warsaw ghetto to classrooms, home school groups, and clubs. Using Credible Sources to Create Incredible Fiction is a favorite interactive presentation perfect for both Language Arts and Social Studies classes and can be presented to a combined group of up to 60 students.

"In addition to engaging with students about Irena Sendler's child rescues and teaching about credible, truthful, and accurate sources,  it is my goal that 100% of the students experience a wow moment -something they won't forget - from our time together."

Read Comments about a recent presentation to 8th grade Language Arts and World History students.

Events for WRITERS

Recent Workshops 
Friends Family & Romantic Pursuits: Perfecting Relationships in every Manuscript.  
Europolitan Conference Brussels, Belgium

Turning Up the Tension: Revision Techniques for Writers
Asian Festival of Children's Content  Singapore 
Bring on the Drama: Playwrighting Basics
Asian Festival of Children's Content Singapore
Characters in Peril 
SCBWI Writers' Workshop Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Recent Keynote Presentations
Your Creative Life
Closing Keynote Europolitan Conference Brussels, Belgium

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Upcoming Events

November 2019

A Chill in My Bones has been selected to be one of forty plays performed in PARAGON: The Largest Science Fiction and Fantasy Play Festival in the World, November 9th and 10th, 2019 at Otherworld Theatre in Chicago, IL. The play will be directed by Gwen Kelly-Masterson.

Past Events

#CodeRed Playwrights & RHCH Theatre Company

A moving monologue by a grieving sister, SOMEONE SENDS FLOWERS, will be included in a special production of the Rich Heritage of Cedar Rapids Theatre Company as part of a #CodeRed Playwrights special collection dedicated to bringing awareness to school shootings. 

November - December 2018

#MeToo Plays Off-Broadway

WHEN GUYS TALK will be run Nov - Dec 2018 as part of the #meToo Plays: Resist collection.  Tickets ~ More Information

October 2018

NOTHING TO CRY ABOUT was performed at Iowa State University  in cooperation with the Parks Library on campus on 1 October 2018
and was also part of  a reading at Wasburn University in Kasnas October 11 - 16 at the Mabee Library on Campus. The 1-minute play is part of a collection by ProtestPlays to encourage voting.

September 2018

Angela's play, A CHILL IN MY BONES, was produced by KMC Studio Shows as part of their Evening of One Acts, Kaiserslautern, Germany 7-16 September, 2018

July - August 2018

Angela's play, SIX MONTHS FROM TODAY, was produced by the Artists' Exchange One-Act Play Festival in Cranston, RI July 26th - August 11th

June 2018

Angela's play, WHEN GUYS TALK, was part of a reading of #MeToo Plays on June 25th in NYC

March- May 2018

Angela's short play, JUST IN CASE, was performed in several locations as part of a collection with CodeRed Playwrights

September - October 2017

Angela's short play, Six Months from Today was produced by KMC OnStage's Studio Shows in An Evening of One Acts.

May 2017

Asian Festival of Children's Content
Angela is schedule for three presentations: Turn up the Tension: Creating Page-Turning Fiction, Bring on the Drama: Teaching Playwriting, Look, Listen & Repeat: How to UNread Books with your Child. She will also take part in a panel about introverts and extroverts as writers. 

SCBWI Europolitan Conference
Angela will lead a workshop: Friends, Family & Romantic Pursuits: Perfecting Relationships in every Manuscript and give the closing keynote address.
January 2017
Angela will present a workshop for The Netherlands Chapter of SCBWI. Characters in Peril on 21 January.
March 2016
Angela will appear on a panel  Blending Fact with Fiction along with Valerie Connors, Ed DeVos, Walt Griffin, Kevin Horgan, Phil Miller, Rona Simmons at the Dahlonega Literature Festival, Dahlonega Georgia

IF THEY COME TONIGHT,  a one-act play by Angela Cerrito
Will be produced in Tyler, TX on 22 March 2016
April 2016
The Bologna Children's Book Fair, Bologna Italy
February 2016
Wordfest at Iowa Lakes Community College
November 2015
Public reading of IF THEY COME TONIGHT, a one-act play by Angela Cerritos in Tyler, TX
October 2015
Angela moderated a panel about diversity in children's picture books
Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
May 2015
Presentation: Searching Credible Sources and Creating Incredible Fiction

8th Grade Language Arts and World History Students (Read Comments from students and teachers)
Workshop: Down to the Marrow: Creating Living, Breathing, Bleeding Characters
US AF Library Write Club (Read Comments from Participants)
April 2015
Presentation: The Safest Lie

The American Book Center   Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 2014
Keynote Speaker: Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust Ceremony

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany
March 2014
Presentation: Diversity in Children's Literature

Bologna Children's Book Fair    Bologna, Italy