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Adaptation to TV Pilot
Craft your literary masterpiece into a compelling TV pilot with guidance from acclaimed writer Corinne Stikeman. Gain invaluable insights into the art of adaptation, learning essential screenwriting techniques to transform your story into captivating visual storytelling. Elevate your narrative skills and embark on the journey of bringing your characters and worlds to life on the screen.
Sat, May 11th, 10:30am–1:30pm PDT
(3 hours)
30-Day Outline Your Story
Discover the craft of outlining your story in this immersive workshop at L.A. Writers' Lab. Unleash the wildness of your imagination while mastering the art of story structure. Through lectures, exercises, and film analysis, unlock your protagonist's transformation and build a compelling narrative.
Oct 16th
1–3pm PDT
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$400
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Crime Scene Confidential: Mystery Writing For TV
Unlock the secrets of crafting gripping mysteries for television with acclaimed writer Elizabeth Baxa. Learn to build suspense and tension through expertly woven plot twists and compelling storytelling techniques. Whether you're drawn to cozy mysteries or hard-boiled thrillers, discover how to captivate your audience from the very first page.
Sun, Jun 2nd, 10am–1pm PDT
(3 hours)
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Introduction to Screenwriting
Unlock your creativity and learn the essentials of screenwriting for television and movies. Discover the art of plotting stories, developing compelling characters, and executing your work in the proper screenwriting format. Get insider tips on selling your script and building a successful career in screenwriting.
Sat, Jul 13th, 11am–1pm PDT
(2 hours)
Playwriting I: 10-Week Workshop (Online)
Unleash your inner playwright and learn the secrets of crafting captivating scripts that come alive on stage. Join our ten-week workshop and discover the art of theatrical storytelling, from dramatic writing techniques to marketing your work. Don't miss your chance to write plays that leave audiences laughing, gasping, and in tears.
Playwriting Intensive I
The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online
Craft compelling narratives from inception to execution in our Playwriting Intensive I course. Learn the art of storytelling as we delve into the fundamental structures of playwriting, guided by the principles of craftsmanship and spontaneity. Join us in a supportive environment where creativity flourishes and stories come to life, paving the way for captivating and surprising narratives.
Meditative Writing
Tap into your deepest creativity and unleash your unique voice with Meditative Writing. Develop techniques to overcome resistance, conquer self-doubt, and create evocative stories that speak to universal truths. Join us and discover a new path to artistic expression.
Libretto Writing (Online)
A musical is only as good as its libretto, the piece that marries the plot and character development with musical composition. In this 8-week class, you'll focus on this main structural component of musical theater, developing the tools and framework of a musical theater piece. This class might be for you if you: An early-career librettist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking...
Kinetic Energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes. This workshop will toss you headlong into your play. Come with the very seed of an idea or something you have only written one or two...
Big D Energy - The Dramaturgy of Playwriting
This is a dramaturgically-inspired playwriting class. While forging ahead on your own works can be very fulfilling, sometimes the best way to forward your writing is through studying the work of others. Over the course of 8 weeks, Winter will guide you through play analyses and writing exercises, looking at great works from the outside in to strengthen your own writing. This class might be for you if you: A writer who wants to employ the principles...
How to Write the Play That Only You Can Write
The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online
Finding Your True Subject: How to Write the Play That Only You Can Write As audiences, we have all sat though plays wondering why the playwright has chosen this particular subject to write about. As playwrights, we have all struggled to approach a subject that we want to write about but can’t find our way into. Finding Your True Subject provides the tools to unlock these subjects, striving to help each writer discover what you (and only you)...
The Rewrite
As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. Open to new and returning students, this class will begin by establishing individualized writing goals to conquer over eight weeks. Whether you choose to embark on a rewrite of your entire play or focus on individual scenes, writing exercises and online lectures will inspire you to ask new questions of your play, look at it from various angles, and deconstruct it with...
How to Write for Musical Theater
The Songwriting School of Los Angeles @ Live Online
Unlock your creative potential and learn the art of writing for musical theater with this comprehensive course at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles. From developing a concept to bringing it to life on stage, film, and television, you'll gain the skills and knowledge needed to create your own original musical. Explore the history, structure, and character development of musical theater while honing your songwriting abilities in this transformative ten-meeting class.
Fundamentals of Playwriting
Embark on a transformative five-week journey with Kara Lee Corthron as she guides you through the essential tools and techniques of playwriting. Discover the power of structure, character, and dialogue while honing your craft and unleashing your inner playwright. Get ready to embark on your first scriptwriting adventure!
Fundamentals of Screenwriting
Join us for an 8 week dive into the new fundamentals of screenwriting. No paint-by-numbers approach here. We will learn and practice an approach to visual story telling inspired by the psychology of creativity and storytelling for the screen. Get your questions answered and develop an approach to screenwriting that works for you! Week 1: Discovering Your Storytelling Voice Introduction to Meditative Writing and the philosophy behind the course...
Solo Show 1: Writing
The Barrow Group Acting School @ Live Online
In this 4-week class, students will begin crafting and writing their own solo show. The class begins with an overview of script analysis and story structure. Then, students will share an outline of their show for review and dramaturgy. During the last session, students will share a fully formed draft of an excerpt of their show. Please bring in your solo show (or ideas for a solo show), in whatever shape it is in, to the first class...
Eclipse Yourself
eclipse: v. when one celestial body obscures the light from or to another celestial body. You're the first body. Your characters are the other bodies. Let's find out what's obscuring your play from you by asking your characters to tell you their stories. This will be a writing intensive workshop; you will be writing monologues and scenes to reveal what's been hidden. Not for first-time playwrights. Writers of any level are welcome as long as you...
Screenwriting Alchemy
4 Week workshop for Screenwriters, TV writers, & Web series creators First, middle, or final drafts. Learn how to turn any pages - into great ones. Cliche transforms into familiar but different, expository morphs into extraordinary, confusing into profound, and average into extraordinary. Discover how to shape-shift for the creation of a magnificent screenplay. In this workshop, we focus on you. Your mind, Your story,...
Introduction to Playwriting
Irish Arts Center @ Virtual Classroom
This class will be held online. Whether you’re interested in full-length plays, musicals, short plays, or other forms, all dramatic writing employs essential ideas and techniques to bring out the drama in any narrative. Explore theatricality and the craft of dramatic writing, and walk away with a self-identified set of skills you can use to craft dynamic stories for the world to experience.
Ten Weeks to Your Feature Film
The world of the feature film is booming and you are gushing with ideas. This workshop will give you the tools to get the ideas out of your head and into a completed screenplay by introducing you to the methods that professional screenwriters use to write under deadlines. If you have been sitting on an idea for a feature film, this is your chance to complete a draft of your screenplay in just ten weeks, with expert feedback at every step. Whether...
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