"Scene Shop" Play Development Saturday Mornings: Winter 2026 Online

"Scene Shop" Play Development

Saturday Mornings

Winter Quarter 2026, Online

7 Saturdays
January 17 - March 14
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Central Time

Instructor: Will Dunne

Designed as an ongoing resource for experienced playwrights and now in its 19th year, Scene Shop offers weekly character, scene, and story tools to help you develop your script, professional actors to read your work, and constructive group feedback to help you evaluate your progress. 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 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. This course is ideal for writers who are at the intermediate and advanced level.

Classes are held via Zoom. Instructors 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!