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Advanced Playwriting (Fall 2023) (Online)

11/01/2023 - 12/20/2023

Category

Class

Admission

  • $325.00

Location

Online

Summary

Sessions: 7 Wednesdays
Session Dates: Nov 01, 08, 15, 29
Dec 06, 13, 20
Session Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm CT

Description

Advanced Playwriting (Fall 2023) (Online)
Nov 01 - Dec 20

6:00pm - 9:00pm Central Time

Instructor: Kestutis Nakas

In this class students will write or revise a full length play. Using a workshop class approach, students will have multiple opportunities to share their work for in-class feedback facilitated by the instructor. Students are welcome to bring plays at any stage of development. As advanced writers, we will explore alternative, global, experimental, and underrepresented approaches to writing. We will take a holistic approach to examining each other’s work—not only focusing on plot, but on all the theatrical elements that can be utilized for storytelling (i.e. imagery, metaphor, structure, etc.). Not only will students deepen their writing craft, they will also develop their ability to give feedback to peers.

 
Prerequisites: The writer has completed at least one play or screenplay, and has some rewriting and/or new play workshopping experience.

 

Kestutis Nakas’ work has been presented at La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, St. Mark's Church, 8BC, and other venues. Works include Railroad Backward, Remembrance of Things Pontiac, The Andrew Carnegie Story. He is Emeritus Professor of Theatre at The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His performance text about urban beekeeping, No Bees for Bridgeport, was published in Animal Acts, Performing Species Today, an anthology of new performance edited by Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes, University of Michigan Press. A bilingual edition of his critically acclaimed tragi-comic cycle: When Lithuania Ruled The World is published by Aukso Zuvys, Vilnius , in 2017. Also in 2017, he presented Channel D a new solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in conjunction with their acquisition of his video archive. His newest work, Revenge of the Dummy, explores ventriloquism.
 

Classes will be held via Zoom. Instructors will send out Zoom invites one day before class begins. We encourage students to set up 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!

Sessions/Weekday 7 Thursdays
Session Dates

Nov 01, 08, 15, 29
Dec 06, 13, 20

No class on 11/22
Time 6:00-9:00pm Central Time
Notes

This course is specifically designed for advanced writers.
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