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Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
This class is for playwrights who want the tools to transition from stage to screen. Writing for television has the potential to be not only artistically satisfying, but lucrative as well—just ask Aaron Sorkin from “The Newsroom”, Sarah Treem from “House of Cards”, Itamar Moses from “Boardwalk Empire”, or Heidi Schreck and Rajiv Joseph from “Nurse Jackie”, among many other playwrights-turned-television writers. In this 10-week class,...
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
Starting a new play is like embarking on an adventure, and even the most seasoned explorers depend on their tool kit. Set yourself on the path to success by asking and answering the questions necessary to harness these tools and begin a successful first draft. Over four days, you will study character, dialogue, and structure, and then launch a new play. Day 1: Meet and develop your central characters. Day 2: Explore...
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Learn to write persuasive opinion editorials One way to share your expertise, establish your professional reputation, raise the visibility of your organization and promote a cause dear to your heart is to pen persuasive opinion pieces. In this hands-on two-session workshop, we will guide you through the following: What is (and is not) an op-ed Conceiving and honing a compelling idea suitable to your expertise and experience Commanding an audience's...
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Explore Professional Private Group EventsGotham Writers Workshop @ 555 8th Ave, New York, NY
Unleash your creativity and capture your life story with expert guidance from seasoned writers at Gotham Writers Workshop. Learn essential techniques to craft compelling memoirs that resonate with readers, explore your unique experiences, and transform ordinary moments into extraordinary narratives. Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery through the power of storytelling.
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Many of us want to write memoirs, but families — good or bad — are loaded territory. Memories conflict with family lore; trauma in the past can trigger trouble in the present; and only the dead don’t mind when you spill their secrets. How do we navigate wisely, mining recollections without either slipping into solipsism or pandering to an imagined audience? In this class we’ll look at published writers who have done it, to trace their fault...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In addition to workshopping our own fiction, we will read published stories that focus on different elements of craft: showing versus telling, point of view, characterization, dialogue and narrative. When we discuss the class’s creative output, we will strive to isolate these elements as much as possible, homing in on problematic areas. In addition, we will talk about publishing and how to begin a writing career. Novel excerpts are permitted....
Miami Ad School PRO @ 35-37 36th St, New York, NY
In this half day account planning workshop, you'll explore the strategic processes and techniques employed by the world's best creative agencies to get closer to consumers and write razor sharp briefs. Great creative work begins with a killer brief. It's not easy to develop creative briefs filled with insight, consumer understanding, and inspiration for your team. It takes time, hard work, and passion. Luckily, there's a process to unlocking this...
Work it out…this is the pentathlon for writers. In each session of this 5-week class, a different award-winning playwright will throw writing exercises at you to make those creative muscles burn. Whether you need to combat writer’s block, work through a problematic scene, or just raise your writing to the next level, each instructor will challenge you to push even harder. You’ll leave this class with an arsenal of tried-and-true writing exercises...
Putting yourself out there as a professional playwright takes more than just getting the words down on the page, but for many playwrights, the “business” end is the final, most terrifying frontier. This brand new Circuit Training class is designed to help you face, and—gasp! even enjoy—the process of developing the strong relationships required to take your play from the page to the stage. Led by an all-star team of power players, self-pitching...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Memoir lets us tell the stories we’ve been carrying around for years—the ones we've been wanting to share. Yet part of the magic of writing is that it helps us uncover other stories, too: ones we didn’t even know we had inside. Whether it springs from a long-ago family saga, a shift in our lives, or an encounter just last week that speaks to history or identity, memoir can help us find new aspects of ourselves, give others the chance to reflect...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...
The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY
Playwriting Workshop: Finding the Humanity in Topical Stories We live in, as the fabled Chinese curse tells us, interesting times. A lot of contemporary writing addresses topical issues. What can get lost in this effort are the human stories that make for compelling drama. If a writer is not careful, they may find themselves writing a lecture instead of a play. And, as Aristotle reminds us - we should serve the story, not our agenda. In this workshop,...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Despite the myth of the “well-made play,” the most innovative theatrical works of our time prove there is no one way to write a great play. In this generative workshop, we’ll explore theatrical texts that challenge the boundaries of genre, experiment with audience invitation, and flood the stage with poetry, all the while pursuing first drafts of our own daring new plays.
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Our personal stories are a vital part of who we are. When we explore our stories by writing memoir, we have the opportunity to understand our experiences more deeply and give others a chance to reflect on theirs. In this course, students will produce and share original autobiographical work, examine aspects of craft such as voice, structure and narration, and engage in critical conversations around topics such as memory, truth (and “truth”),...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
What makes Dante’s Divine Comedy such essential reading today, even though it was written seven centuries ago? This course will explore the fascinating world of Dante’s epic poem in all its cultural and historical richness, as we consider Dante’s relation to his beloved hometown of Florence, his lacerating experience of exile, and his lifelong devotion to his muse Beatrice, among many other issues. We will pay special attention...
The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY
A sketch comedy writing workshop, focusing on the history, elements, structure, and forms. Comedy writing tools, techniques, and exercises will be introduced. Students will write original comedy sketches every week both in class and out and workshop them in a supportive class environment. Additional topics will include tools for eliminating writer’s block, using improv to enhance the creative process, punching up sketches with a writer’s roundtable,...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Elizabeth Bishop is a modern North American poet who is hard to identify in terms of a single school of poetry, place, or home. She writes poems linked to her native ground of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, yet she is also a poet who famously writes of travel. Brazil, where she lived for twenty years, was home away from home for her, as was Key West, for a shorter period. New York City, and Paris, too, figure into her poetic geography. The...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Nabokov said that the true purpose of memoir should be to discern and follow “the thematic designs of one’s life.” In that spirit, this class attempts to guide students in the quest to discover what story to tell and how to tell it. Class discussions — of works in progress and of weekly exercises written in reponse to excerpts from classic memoirs — explore elements of craft such as character, description, dialogue and pacing. The goal...
Write a full-length play using William Shakeaspere's Hamlet as a blueprint in this 8-week class! You can set your version of Hamlet in Nazi Germany, during the Black Plague, or even on Mars in this fun and interactive class. This class might be for you if you are: A playwright looking to delve into the craft of adaptation. An artist of any type who loves Shakespeare and wants to explore retelling his work. Curious about Shakespeare and want...
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