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Full Schedule How to Enroll Member Discounts Refund And Cancellation Policy Mailing List Directions Ten Min Workshop (08/14/2010)
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DEVELOPING A PLAY-IN-PROGRESS This is a workshop for writers who want to develop a script on which they have already begun work. This may include anything from a short scene to an entire draft of a play. The class will explore the skills and qualities of effective dramatic writing by reading and discussing participants' scripts in a supportive and challenging environment, with the goal being to ready their plays for production. This Course is offered at the following times: IT HAPPENED ONE WEEKEND - Write a One-Act on Saturday and Hear it Performed on Sunday This unique, weekend intensive offers step-by-step writing exercises, group feedback, and actor support to trigger and guide the development of a new short play. Arrive on Saturday morning with absolutely nothing prepared and take a creative leap. By Sunday afternoon, writers will have not only written a new play but heard it performed by professional actors! Perfect for out-of-town playwrights, this workshop is designed for writers with some playwriting experience or confident beginners. It also offers a boost for those who feel blocked, rusty, or just want a writing change of pace. This Course is offered at the following times: MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING - Story into Song - II In this interactive class, participants will receive advanced tools for plotting and scoring musicals, including developing love stories as subplot or main story action, manipulating time perception through music, and deepening meaning through principles of mythic structure. Participants share their own work in class, in addition to studying examples from musical masterworks. Flexible weekly assignments allow participants to use the class presentation time in the way that is most valuable for them, by sharing work from existing projects, completing suggested exercises, or presenting revisions of previous work for response. (Pre-requisite: Story Into Song I or by permission of the instructor.) This Course is offered at the following times: PLAYWRITING LAB This class is designed for beginning playwrights and also for more experienced writers looking to hone their basic skills. Through a variety of in-class writing exercises, at-home writing assignments, class discussions, and in-class readings of participants' work, writers will learn the essentials of good playwriting, including character motivation, plot structure, dialogue, dramatic conflict, as well as proper formatting and the submission process. Writers will have the opportunity to share their work in a supportive and challenging environment. This Course is offered at the following times: PLAYWRITING LAB This class is designed for beginning playwrights and also for more experienced writers looking to hone their basic skills. Through a variety of in-class writing exercises, at-home writing assignments, class discussions, and in-class readings of participants' work, writers will learn the essentials of good playwriting, including character motivation, plot structure, dialogue, dramatic conflict, as well as proper formatting and the submission process. Writers will have the opportunity to share their work in a supportive and challenging environment. This Course is offered at the following times: SCENE SHOP Now in its fourth year at Chicago Dramatists, this popular workshop is designed as an ongoing salon for experienced playwrights who are currently working on a play or about to begin one. Each week offers a guided writing exercise to explore character and story ideas, and the opportunity to hear scene work from home read by professional actors and discussed by the group in a supportive setting. As a result, writers don't have to wait until they complete a whole draft of a play to hear their characters off the page and to get input from other writers. (Selected scenes from the Fall and Winter quarters will be presented in a Scene Shop Showcase on May 16, 2011. Selected scenes from the Spring and Summer quarters will be presented in a Scene Shop Showcase on November 14, 2011.) This Course is offered at the following times: SCREENWRITING LAB - The American Screenplay This class offers a workable map for anyone aspiring to penetrate the thickets of Hollywood with their screenplay or with as little as a story idea. Through lecture and discussion, writers will learn the basics of screenwriting, with a particular emphasis on character and finding that great hook that will cause a producer to shout, "That's a movie!" There will be ample time allotted to in-class writing assignments such as clarifying story ideas, developing plot outlines, and script critique. This Course is offered at the following times: SOLO SHOW - Writing the 1-Person Play This class is designed for actors, playwrights, solo artists, and storytellers of all levels, from those who are thinking about writing a one-person play to those who are in the final stages of polishing their own solo show. This hands-on workshop will focus on: 1. The ten styles of solo pieces. 2. Finding your voice and the Voice of the story. 3. Designing the solo story plot structure. 4. Techniques to manipulate the storyteller/audience relationship. 5. Character development and writing multiple character scenes. 6. Creative and nontraditional use of timelines, plotlines and stories. (Participants may bring to the first session: 5-7 minutes of their solo show, or a story they think may become part of a solo show, or even just an idea for a solo show.) This Course is offered at the following times: THE BLUE PRINT - Powerful Plays and the Structure that Holds Them This class will take an in-depth look into the dramatic elements of four plays: "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, "Take me Out" by Richard Greenberg, "The Clean House" by Sarah Ruhl, and "Ruined" by Lynn Nottage. By examining and pinpointing the building blocks of these plays, writers will create an outline and bring pages to class of a brand new full-length play. (Participants are asked to obtain the plays on their own, prior to class.) This Course is offered at the following times: |
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