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Advanced Playwriting (Winter 2024) (Online)

02/07/2024 - 03/27/2024

Category

Class

Admission

  • $325.00

Location

Online

Summary

Sessions: 7 Wednesdays
Session Dates: Feb 07, 21, 28
Mar 06, 13, 20, 27
Session Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm CT

Description

Advanced Playwriting (Winter 2024) (Online)
Feb 07 - Mar 27

6:00pm - 9:00pm Central Time

Instructor: William Missouri Downs

An advanced class for playwrights who have written one or more plays and want to fine-tune their writing. Sessions will concentrate on cultivating story, characters, and dialogue. In addition, we will cover how to get produced. 

Tom Stoppard said that words can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. Words, he said, "deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little…" This class will help you do a little nudging.
Prerequisites: The writer has completed at least one play or screenplay, and has some rewriting and/or new play workshopping experience.

William Missouri Downs has written everything from NBC sitcoms to Kabuki tragedies. He's had over 350 productions of his comedies and musicals and won numerous writing awards, including two rolling premieres from the National New Play Network. He's twice been a finalist at the Eugene O'Neill. His plays have been produced in Spain, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, India, UAE, Australia, South Korea, and the USA. He's published 14 plays with Concord, Playscripts, Heuer, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and Next Stage Press. In Hollywood he wrote for several NBC sitcoms and sold/optioned movies and TV pilots. He published four books on the art of theatre, including Naked Playwriting. He has two MFAs, one in screenwriting from UCLA and a second in acting from the University of Illinois. He was trained in playwriting by Lanford Wilson and Milan Stitt at the Circle Rep Theater in New York. (www.williammissouridowns.com)
 

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 Wednesdays
Session Dates

Feb 07, 21, 28

Mar 06, 13, 20, 27

No class on 02/14
Time 6:00-9:00pm Central Time
Notes

This course is specifically designed for advanced writers.
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