• Sarah Koskoff

    WRITING

    Sarah Koskoff is a writer and former actor with over 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She wrote the screenplay for Hello I Must Be Going, which was the Opening Night Film of the Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize. The National Board of Review honored the film as one of the year's Ten Best Independent Films, and her screenplay won the Best Screenwriting in a Feature Film award at the Nantucket Film Festival. She is currently developing a limited series with Robin Swicord for Echo Lake Entertainment about the Sandy Hook Families’ legal battle to hold Remington Arms accountable for manufacturing and marketing the AR-15 rifle. As an actor, Sarah worked with Tobey Maguire, Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, Gillian Anderson, Wendell Pierce, Tom Hanks, and the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman, among other luminaries. She taught screenwriting at the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers and was a thesis advisor for the Sarah Lawrence MFA in Creative Writing. She is a Creative Advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive in Los Angeles and teaches generative writing workshops to artists all over the world.

  • KC Wiley

    MOVEMENT

    Kyralesa Wiley is a writer, former professional dancer, and movement educator with over 30 years of experience in teaching, somatics, and embodied practice. She is the founder of River Pilates in Hudson, New York, a studio known for its thoughtful, individualized approach and its focus on the relationship between movement and the inner life. Her work blends dance, classical Pilates, yoga, and tai chi, guiding clients ranging from professional dancers to people recovering from injury to those seeking a more sustainable way of inhabiting their bodies. She has created and led wellness retreats in Italy, Spain, and the United States, designing immersive programs that combine movement, reflection, and rest. As a writer, she publishes The Listening Body, a Substack column that examines the body as a site of intuition, knowing, and story. She is currently at work on a memoir about generational memory and the unseen threads that connect us.

  • “Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world.”– Paolo Sorrentino

    Rome has enchanted writers and artists for centuries.

    In this generative workshop, we will write our way into the city, touching on elements of Rome’s art, history, and mythology to frame our daily writing practice. We will, in turn, allow our unfolding experience of the city’s jaw-dropping juxtapositions and vibrant chaos to motivate and inspire our writing. In the evenings, we’ll gather for short craft discussions and writing sprints to collect the day’s events.

    Artists of all kinds are welcome, as are those writing and sharing their work for the first time. Your writing will not be critiqued. You’ll be free to take risks, fail better, make associative leaps, work on a piece in progress, or simply see where the writing takes you.  

    This workshop will be a supportive, motivating space to write, read your work, listen to each other and yourselves, and experience The Eternal City.

  • TEXT IN MOTION

    In this workshop we enter the body as a doorway into the written word. Through somatic practice, gentle improvisation, and the kind of curiosity that rises before language, we explore how breath, weight, and subtle shifts in awareness can loosen what has been held too tightly on the page. Movement becomes a way of listening, a way of letting the body answer before the mind decides.

    We will work slowly, intuitively, and without judgment. Nothing needs to be performed or accomplished. You do not need any movement background or previous experience of any kind, only a willingness to follow what is felt rather than forced. Together we will allow the body to become a companion to the writing process, a place where language can rise, reshape itself, and show us what lives beneath the words.

  • This is a place for people who want space, encouragement, and a gentle container for exploration. If you are seeking time to listen inwardly, to create without pressure, or simply to step away from the pace of daily life, you will be at home here.

    All activities are completely optional. You are free to join every session, or to use the time to wander, rest, or write in the quiet of your room. We will support whatever rhythm feels right for you.