One Southern California summer, a teacher and his eight students gather for a week-long creative writing workshop at their high school. Though some students are more reluctant to share their personal stories (whether real or fictitious), everyone can bond over memories of childhood book sagas, or the anxieties of high school. But how can they reconcile melancholic thoughts of the past with harsher realities that await them at the turn of adulthood? Sometimes the students would prefer the cliches they’ve accumulated from movies and books. But when those cliches start to play out in real life, are they just anomalies? Or are they unconscious manifestations of what the students wish would happen? The process of translating oneself to the page can be daunting—requiring vulnerability, hours of work, seemingly endless revisions. Going back to edit your own life, though… hopefully that’s not as impossible as it sounds. Workshop,written and directed by Miles Garcia '25, performs December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Auditions take place TBD.