Sue Roupp is devoted to helping writers/clients achieve their true potential. and her poetry has won many awards. She also has a New York agent waiting for revisions to her book, is VP of Off Campus Writers Workshop (about 200 members, 60 year old writers group located in Winnetka, IL weekly speakers from 9:30 AM-noon each Thursday from September-May). May 2009 becomes President.
For years she has taken classes at Piven Theater Workshop in Evanston, IL. in the advanced classes at Piven. In 2007 she had the pleasure of being asked to bring in a poem to perform. She brought in a silly performance poem and wound up slicing and dicing the stanzas into dialogure interspersed with improv and directing three actors in performing it. She is a writing coach and gives workshops under rouppwrites/Poetry Rocks workshops. These workshops are threefold: teaching poets and other writers how to perform their work; leading writers through exercises that allow them to identify what the underlying issues are they are writing about, then through use of poetry techniques writers are able to put these issues into concise, readable words with a deeper meaning and fun workshops talking about poetry and learning to write it - these are aimed at children and adults. She also gives
interactive lectures on poetry/fiction/non-fiction, leaving participants revved up and excited about what they have heard and learned.