"Scene Shop" Play Development Sampler (Saturday Mornings: Summer 2023) (Online)

"Scene Shop" Play Development Sampler: Saturday Mornings (Summer 2023) (Online)

Sep 09 - Sep 23
10:00am - 1:00pm Central Time - ONE SEAT NOW AVAILABLE! 

Instructor: Will Dunne

The Scene Shop Sampler is a once-a-year opportunity to give "Scene Shop" Play Development a try without having to make a full-quarter commitment. Now starting its 16th year, this weekly workshop for experienced playwrights offers writing tools, professional actors, and constructive group feedback to help you write or revise your play. If you ever need to miss a session, you can always make it up in the other Scene Shop section that week. Workshop members are eligible to participate in the Scene Shop Showcase, a night of staged readings presented twice yearly in the Russ Tutterow Theatre.

Will Dunne is the author of THE DRAMATIC WRITER'S COMPANION(2009, Second Edition 2017), THE ARCHITECTURE OF STORY (2016), and CHARACTER, SCENE AND STORY (2017) all published internationally by the University of Chicago Press. His plays have been presented worldwide in three languages and earned numerous honors, including three selections by the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center for the U.S. National Playwrights Conference, a Charles MacArthur Fellowship awarded by the O'Neill for outstanding comedy, four Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, two DramaLogue Playwriting Awards, and a Best-of-Year mention from the San Francisco Examiner. He also has been nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play and twice been named a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Prerequisites: The writer has completed at least one play or screenplay.

The Early Bird Discount is not applicable for this course. Network Discounts still apply.

Classes will be held via Zoom. Instructors will send out Zoom invites one day before class begins. We encourage students to setup a Zoom account for themselves before class if they have not already to ensure when class begins you are able to jump straight into the art!