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Learn the art of crafting compelling narratives and creating dynamic characters in online playwriting classes, where you can explore various techniques and gain insight into the world of theater from the comfort of your home.

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Screenwriting II: Outlining and Writing a Feature

The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online

Learn advanced techniques in crafting compelling feature film scripts in this intensive course. Refine your outlining and writing skills under the guidance of industry professionals at a renowned acting school. Elevate your screenwriting abilities and bring your creative visions to life on the page.

(66) Intermediate 18 and older
$495

11 sessions

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TV II: TV Draft Writing

Writing Pad

Learn how to transform your TV pilot from a messy draft to a captivating masterpiece in this ten-week online workshop. Craft amazing outlines, write scenes with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and capture the imagination of readers with your storytelling skills. Join now and gain the confidence to finish your pilot with flair.

(59) Intermediate 16 and older
$1,140

8 sessions

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Write Your Screenplay

Jacob Krueger Studio

Discover screenwriting and forever change the way you approach your craft. Award-winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger will guide you through a transformative four-week workshop that teaches you how to grow your script from the initial idea to the movie of your dreams. Join a supportive community of fellow writers as you learn to integrate your artistic goals into your real-world life.

(43) Beginner 16 and older
$375

4 sessions

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Screenwriting I: Introduction

The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online

Learn the fundamentals of screenwriting and how to bring your ideas to life on the big screen with The Barrow Group Acting School's course. Explore screenplay structure, character development, and dialogue through engaging weekly assignments, readings, and viewings. Develop your own original short screenplay with guidance from industry professionals during this ten-week course.

(66) Beginner 18 and older
$425

9 sessions

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Scripts in Focus Level I: 6 Weeks (Self-Paced)

Gotham Writers Workshop

Unleash the power of your words and transform them into captivating scripts that resonate with your audience. Explore the art of scriptwriting with expert guidance and hands-on exercises.

(745) All levels 18 and older
$364

2 sessions

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The 90-Day Screenplay

L.A. Writers' Lab

Unlock the transformative power of storytelling in the lively and immersive 90-Day Screenplay course at L.A. Writers' Lab. Discover a process that marries imagination with structure, allowing you to bring your unique perspective to life on the page. Join us for weekly live Zoom calls, craft lessons, and screening clips to ignite your creativity and master the art of storytelling.

(2) All levels 18 and older
$1,000

14 sessions

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Meditative Writing

Meditative Writing

Tap into your deepest creativity and unleash your unique voice with Meditative Writing. Develop techniques to overcome resistance, conquer self-doubt, and create evocative stories that speak to universal truths. Join us and discover a new path to artistic expression.

(5) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$375

4 sessions

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Libretto Writing (Online)

Primary Stages ESPA

A musical is only as good as its libretto, the piece that marries the plot and character development with musical composition. In this 8-week class, you'll focus on this main structural component of musical theater, developing the tools and framework of a musical theater piece. This class might be for you if you:  An early-career librettist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Kinetic Energy

Primary Stages ESPA

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes. This workshop will toss you headlong into your play. Come with the very seed of an idea or something you have only written one or two...

(11) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Big D Energy - The Dramaturgy of Playwriting

Primary Stages ESPA

This is a dramaturgically-inspired playwriting class. While forging ahead on your own works can be very fulfilling, sometimes the best way to forward your writing is through studying the work of others. Over the course of 8 weeks, Winter will guide you through play analyses and writing exercises, looking at great works from the outside in to strengthen your own writing. This class might be for you if you: A writer who wants to employ the principles...

(11) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

How to Write the Play That Only You Can Write

The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online

Finding Your True Subject: How to Write the Play That Only You Can Write As audiences, we have all sat though plays wondering why the playwright has chosen this particular subject to write about. As playwrights, we have all struggled to approach a subject that we want to write about but can’t find our way into. Finding Your True Subject provides the tools to unlock these subjects, striving to help each writer discover what you (and only you)...

(66) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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The Rewrite

Primary Stages ESPA

As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. Open to new and returning students, this class will begin by establishing individualized writing goals to conquer over eight weeks. Whether you choose to embark on a rewrite of your entire play or focus on individual scenes, writing exercises and online lectures will inspire you to ask new questions of your play, look at it from various angles, and deconstruct it with...

(11) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

How to Write for Musical Theater

The Songwriting School of Los Angeles @ Live Online

Unlock your creative potential and learn the art of writing for musical theater with this comprehensive course at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles. From developing a concept to bringing it to life on stage, film, and television, you'll gain the skills and knowledge needed to create your own original musical. Explore the history, structure, and character development of musical theater while honing your songwriting abilities in this transformative ten-meeting class.

(2) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$699

10 sessions

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Fundamentals of Playwriting

Primary Stages ESPA

Embark on a transformative five-week journey with Kara Lee Corthron as she guides you through the essential tools and techniques of playwriting. Discover the power of structure, character, and dialogue while honing your craft and unleashing your inner playwright. Get ready to embark on your first scriptwriting adventure!

(11) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$460

5 sessions

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Fundamentals of Screenwriting

Meditative Writing

Join us for an 8 week dive into the new fundamentals of screenwriting. No paint-by-numbers approach here. We will learn and practice an approach to visual story telling inspired by the psychology of creativity and storytelling for the screen. Get your questions answered and develop an approach to screenwriting that works for you! Week 1: Discovering Your Storytelling Voice Introduction to Meditative Writing and the philosophy behind the course...

(5) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$599

8 sessions

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Online Solo Show 2: Performance

The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online

In this 6-week class, students will continue to draft their solo show while focusing on performance, using The Barrow Group acting tools. The class culminates in a sharing of 5-10 minute excerpts of their pieces. Prerequisite: Students must have completed Solo Show I: Writing or the 10-Week Solo Show I class.

(66) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$395

6 sessions

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Solo Show 1: Writing

The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online

In this 4-week class, students will begin crafting and writing their own solo show. The class begins with an overview of script analysis and story structure. Then, students will share an outline of their show for review and dramaturgy.  During the last session, students will share a fully formed draft of an excerpt of their show.  Please bring in your solo show (or ideas for a solo show), in whatever shape it is in, to the first class...

(66) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$295

4 sessions

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Eclipse Yourself

Primary Stages ESPA

eclipse: v. when one celestial body obscures the light from or to another celestial body. You're the first body. Your characters are the other bodies. Let's find out what's obscuring your play from you by asking your characters to tell you their stories. This will be a writing intensive workshop; you will be writing monologues and scenes to reveal what's been hidden. Not for first-time playwrights. Writers of any level are welcome as long as you...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Screenwriting Alchemy

Meditative Writing

4 Week workshop for Screenwriters, TV writers, & Web series creators First, middle, or final drafts. Learn how to turn any pages - into great ones.  Cliche transforms into familiar but different, expository morphs into extraordinary, confusing into profound, and average into extraordinary.  ​Discover how to shape-shift for the creation of a magnificent screenplay.  In this workshop, we focus on you. Your mind, Your story,...

(5) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$399

4 sessions

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Introduction to Playwriting

Irish Arts Center @ Virtual Classroom

This class will be held online. Whether you’re interested in full-length plays, musicals, short plays, or other forms, all dramatic writing employs essential ideas and techniques to bring out the drama in any narrative. Explore theatricality and the craft of dramatic writing, and walk away with a self-identified set of skills you can use to craft dynamic stories for the world to experience.

(51) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$165

8 sessions

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