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"Dialogue?" "Yes." Online Winter 2026
02/04/2026 06:00 PM - 03/25/2026 09:00 PM CT
Category
Class
Admission
- $375.00
Location
Online
Summary
Wednesday Evenings
Seven Sessions
via Zoom, 6-9 pm Central
Feb 4, 11, 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25
No class Feb 18
Seven Sessions
via Zoom, 6-9 pm Central
Feb 4, 11, 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25
No class Feb 18
Description
Writing Great Dialogue
with Joshua Fardon
We’re surrounded by great dialogue every day – at home, on the CTA, in the grocery store, at work, anywhere people talk. But capturing the rhythms of speech and adjusting them to fit within a coherent storyline can be challenging. How can speech make your characters active and engaged within the constraints of a compelling story?
This class explores the ways in which we use words to communicate. Through discussion and class exercises we will investigate what works, what sounds natural, what feels extraneous, what serves your story, how much words may reveal, and how much they may hide.
Class members will share their current work/projects with a focus on dialogue. We will discuss what works, what may improve, and why. This will be a fun, informative way to help you make your script’s dialogue more clear, true, funny, and dynamic.
JOSHUA FARDON (he/him/his)’s play Sadie Hurtz was recently published by Next Stage Press. Other produced plays include 1=0, The Condition, The Burning of Kenneth Carrion, Do Not Disturb, Shake, This Contract Limits Our Liability – Read It!, and Miss Henrietta Stralson. His one-acts and short musicals have been produced in Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York. He sold a pilot to Miramax Television.
A three-time O’Neill semifinalist, a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama; a member of the WGA America-East, the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA and AEA. He was the founding Creative Director of the Naked Angels Theatre Company in Chicago. He is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and, with Robert Tenges, has served as Artistic Director. He directed Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood at SUNY Purchase in October 2025