Fix Your Script

Fix Your Script

with Emilio Williams

You have a complete draft for a new play. It may be its first draft, or you may have been wrestling with this play for years. You may also have a gut-feeling that this draft is not fully working, and you are not sure why or how to get it fixed. In this Workshop Intensive, award-winning playwright and educator Emilio Williams will work with you to bring the complete draft to the next level. At the core of the experience will be a step-by-step method to revise a script from head to toe, from the line level to the overall structure. 

This class is suitable for advanced writers who have a complete draft of a play.  You will engage in writing exercises in and outside of the writing session and learn a new approach to the revision process.

About Emilio

Emilio Williams is a bilingual (Spanish/English) award-winning writer and educator.  His critically acclaimed plays have been shown in Argentina, Estonia, France, Mexico, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. In 2023, he premiered ¡Bernarda!, produced by Teatro Vista, and co-presented with Steppenwolf Theatre at their 1700 space. His experimental essays have appeared most recently in The Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Brevity Magazine, Writing Disorder, Hinterland Magazine, Imagined Theatres, Transatlantica Journal, and the anthology Beyond Queer Words 2021. 

Emilio has lectured worldwide and taught at several U.S. universities, including DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Georgia State University. He has been a guest artist at the University of Portland, Mary Washington University, North Eastern Illinois University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Emilio holds a BA in Film and Video and an MFA in Writing. He is a alumni Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and a proud board member of The Physical Theater Festival in Chicago.