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Learn the art of crafting compelling narratives and dynamic characters in playwriting classes in NYC, where participants will explore the fundamentals of dramatic structure and develop their own unique voice as playwrights.

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Short Film Development

Script Doctoresse

Award-Winning Writer-Director Alia Azamat will mentor you through the experience of developing your greatest Screenplay in the Workshop that has an extremely practical, hands-on approach to learning. Alia will teach your how to make your idea blossom into a professional screenplay Treatment that you can pitch, sell and produce. Under Alia’s careful guidance and with strict adherence to the screenwriting rituals she developed through years of successfully...

All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$300

4 sessions

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Craft: A 4-Week Screenwriting Intensive

Jacob Krueger Studio @ 247 W 35th St, New York, NY

What is the fastest most efficient way to master something? Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. In this class you will be focusing strictly on Craft. By stepping away from your story and your characters we get the opportunity to really dig in and morph your craft into the most effective tools in your arsenal. Before they ever step out onto the field, pitchers train. A pitcher will throw curveball after curveball after curve ball until...

(43) Intermediate 18 and older
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$375
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The Nuts and Bolts of Screenwriting

Imeldaoreilly @ 134 W 29th St, New York, NY

This workshop is ideal for actors, writers or anyone who wants to start or continue to develop their writing techniques. The Material covered will include choosing the right idea for the format, how to take a cliché idea and make it original and obtain tools and formulae to help you develop the craft of screenwriting. How can you showcase yourself in the industry without a great calling card?  Ignite your imagination and creativity and become...

All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

5 sessions

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Writing and Acting Workshop

The Writers and Actors Group

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY MOVED ONLINE. Due to these insecure economic times, our class and coaching fees have been temporarily lowered. Where actors get to work on their cold reading skills, and writers get to workshop their scripts. This weekly workshop is a fun a fun and friendly opportunity to practice cold reading, and become a better writer. Be a writer, be an actor, or be both. We workshop 2 scripts per week, roughly 25...

(24) All levels 12 and older
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Writing and Acting Workshop

The Writers and Actors Group @ 131 West 72nd Street

Where actors get to work on their cold reading skills, and writers get to workshop their scripts. This weekly workshop is a fun a fun and friendly opportunity to practice cold reading, and become a better writer. Be a writer, be an actor, or be both. We workshop 2 scripts per week, roughly 25 pages of each. Actors receive their scripts when they arrive, writers run through the pages once with their actors, and then they perform it for the...

(24) All levels 14 and older
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Online: Television Writing 2

Primary Stages ESPA @ Zoom, New York, NY

Writing for television has the potential to be not only artistically satisfying, but lucrative as well—just ask Aaron Sorkin from "The Newsroom," Zakiyyah Alexander from "Grey's Anatomy,"or Joshua Allen from "Empire.". This class is your opportunity to build on what you learned in TV Writing 1 about the structure and language of television and apply it to your own writing, so you can work to join the ranks of these distinguished playwrights-turned-television...

(11) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$460

7 sessions

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