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TV Drama II: TV Drama Pilot & Dance Workshop
You have a killer beat sheet for your TV Pilot, but when you sit down to write, everything turns to mush: vague characters, huge data dumps, clunky dialogue, and scenes that go nowhere. In this ten-week Online TV Draft Writing Workshop, you’ll get Oscar-nominated screenwriter Cami Delavigne’s (Amazon’s Homecoming, 3 pilots, Blue Valentine) help crafting a rock-solid outline and writing propulsive scenes that have a complete beginning, middle...
Big D Energy - The Dramaturgy of Playwriting
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...
Humorous Personal Essay: Find the Funny
Using fun in-class exercises, we’ll help you transform your bad blind dates and visits from unruly parents into insightful, compelling revelations. We will help you dig deep into your treasure trove of personal experience to find the literary diamond in the rough that you can polish into a hilarious, relatable and tantalizing gem. You’ll even get a private meeting to get final notes on your piece and figure out where to send it. By the end of...
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10-Minute Plays and One Acts
Developing a strong portfolio of short plays is one of the fastest ways to become a produced or published playwright. In this 8-week class, you’ll learn how to distill a compelling story into the shortest possible dramatic form, think outside of the box of structure, and have some fun. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright of any level who wants to explore the unique storytelling principles of the short form. Want to present your...
Online Class: Rewriting Your Draft
As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. This 10-week class will help you tackle the revision process and develop a stronger version of your play. Open to new and returning students located anywhere in the world, this class will be run just like a real-life writing room, interacting with your instructor and classmates live via Zoom. This class might be for you if you: Have a fully completed draft of a full-length...
The First Draft
Whether you're writing your first play or your hundredth, it's not always easy to set the creative wheels in motion. This 10-week class will guide you through the development of your first draft. Open to new and returning students located anywhere in the world, this class will be run just like a real-life writing room, interacting with your instructor and classmates live via Zoom. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright...
Podcasting 1: Start Your Podcast
Learn from podcasting expert John Fecile (99% Invisible, Snap Judgment) and discover the secrets to creating engaging podcasts. Develop an idea, learn interviewing techniques, and get hands-on training in audio editing and recording techniques. Fulfill your dream of starting your own podcast with this five-week online course.
Pilot II: Finishing the Script
The New York Screenwriter's Lab
In this workshop, you will complete and/or refine your script. You will also receive feedback on your work EVERY week from the instructor AND the entire group. You will get the high level of personal attention that comes with small class size. You will be surrounded by a group of motivated peers. You will learn how to deal with the challenges that can present themselves at this stage of the writing process such as: Manipulating the pace &...
The LAB
The New York Screenwriter's Lab @ Virtual Classroom
The LAB is an ongoing weekly workshop where people who have taken either a 6-week course or an Intensive can finish their script under the guidance of the instructor and receive feedback from an intimate group of other writers. It’s also a place to rewrite an existing script, workshop an outline, or build out the idea for your next project. Limited to 6 writers, each member of the LAB can submit up to 20 script pages per week (or...
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)...
The Rewrite
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...
The First Draft
Whether you're writing your first play or your hundredth, it's not always easy to set the creative wheels in motion. This 10-week class will guide you through the development of your first draft. Open to new and returning students located anywhere in the world, this class will be run just like a real-life writing room, interacting with your instructor and classmates live via Zoom. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright of...
Manuscript Intensive Program
SF Creative Writing Institute @ Virtual Classroom
Send your book out without self-doubt. Instead, work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape. In this month-long one-on-one intensive, an experienced published author will closely read your entire book and mentor you, giving focused editorial feedback on the first 25 pages and an editorial letter to guide revision of the rest. There will be significant opportunity for extended correspondence with your mentor, who will provide...
Advanced Lyric Writing
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
By invitation or application only. Armed with the foundational lyric writing principles—including song structure, scansion, rhyme, and classical musical theater song forms—you will expand your lyric writing skills through doing and apply this knowledge to your own projects. This class might be for you if you: Have taken Lyric Writing 1 and are looking to continue your learning! In this class you will: Develop and present work in a...
Short Form Screenwriting
Screenwriting is a specialized craft with its own set of dramatic writing principles. Film allows writers to tell stories in an infinite range of styles, from special effects-charged blockbusters to the intimate indie projects. In this 6-week class with screenwriter and playwright Melisa Annis, you will apply the concepts of character development, visual storytelling, theme, plot, and dialogue to your own original short film script. This class...
Online: Fast First Draft
This class is set up for you to swiftly and decisively embark on a first draft of a new play. In the first session of this 5-week class, you will work on generative writing exercises designed to kickstart your creativity, and in each subsequent session you'll workshop new pages. Propelled forward by page-generating exercises and unencumbered by extensive critique, you will start to develop a new play—either a one-act or a full-length—and have...
Short Story 2: Short Story Writing Workshop
You’ve learned the Short Story Basics, but how do you do you take your skills to the next level? In this 5-week San Francisco advanced short story workshop, Dominica Phetteplace (ZYZZYVA, Pushcart Prizes) will show you how! Through fun in-class exercises, you’ll learn to how to evaluate your ideas, write glorious prose, and troubleshoot problematic arcs. Dominica will teach you how to transform your rough drafts into literary gold. You’ll...
Blog Basics Level 1: 4-week Selling Seminar
Blogs come in all shapes and styles, and have become an established part of the literary, journalistic, professional, and social landscape. They are a great way to establish a platform as a writer or expert, promote a business, or just let the world know what you’re up to. Perhaps you would like to start a blog. Or improve your blog. The beautiful thing about blogs is that you don’t have to wait for permission to publish your work. You...
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.
Meditative Writing Level 1 and 2
Use neuroscience, cognitive behavioral training, neuro linguistic programming, behavioral economics, psychology, evolutionary biology, and meditation to write from your most connected self. Each class starts with an introduction to various cognitive & meditative tools to build a prolific writing habit and write universal stories. Each class includes a meditation that guides you into a deeply connected writing session. You will generate many...
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