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TV Writing Workshop: The 1-Hour Pilot
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
This 4-day, two weekend workshop will focus on the core elements of writing an original 1-hour dramatic series pilot script—from premise to outline to completed teleplay. This workshop might be for you if you: Are a writer who has written in other formats and want to learn the fundamentals of creating a one hour series. Have taken the TV Writing Workshop: The 1-Hour Spec Script at ESPA. Want to write an original 1-hour drama pilot script....
Tools and Techniques of Poetry
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Share your story, sculpt your feelings & ideas, explore the art & craft of poetry! This workshop is open to both beginning & advanced writers. We will create a safe environment to cultivate and hone poetic tools & techniques. Over the course of the workshop: We will examine the poet's toolkit, e.g., line-breaks, rhyme, metaphor, forms etc., in a supportive atmosphere, through writing prompts and exercises. ...
The Heart of the Matter
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Making the reader feel is one of the most important goals of creative writing. But there aren’t cheap shortcuts and creating emotion on the page is an artful enterprise. This seminar will discuss the importance of risking sentimentality to get at sentiment. Some methods we’ll look at include surprise, restraint, opposing forces, and the use of concrete, resonate detail. The seminar will include a talk, discussion,...
$125
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Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Every life is a unique, dynamic, unfolding, sacred story, but few of us try to figure out what our story is really about, who is writing our script, why we’ve selected certain roles, or how to become happier, more fully expressed characters. In this class for novices and habitual writers alike, we will discover structured writing exercises designed to help those of us who feel stuck—in a dead-end job, a challenging relationship, or stage...
Weekend Playwriting Workshop: Jumpstart and Revisions
The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY
This two day weekend workshop combines Jumpstart and Revisions into one weekend. Playwriting Jumpstart: For playwrights, actors, directors, designers and anyone interested in exploring the creative process and broadening their skills in storytelling. Whether you are new to playwriting or in the middle of a project, you already possess, deep inside you, everything you need to jumpstart your art and bring forth your unique voice. For theatre...
$350
Recognizing and Combating Unconscious Bias
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Oftentimes theatre-goers find themselves wondering what happens to the characters after the curtain falls. In her debut novel, After Anatevka, our speaker, Alexandra Silber, takes on that very question with the celebrated musical Fiddler on the Roof. Picking up where the drama left off, we find Hodel at center stage hoping to join her fiancé Perchik in the outer reaches of a Siberian work camp. Come hear how Silber approached this remarkable...
$25
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...
Freelancing Workshop
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
We’ll cover generating ideas, understanding markets, getting to the right editor, pitching the story, and contracts and rights issues. Students will also write in-class pitches, to be critiqued on the spot, for magazines and web sites. Longtime independent journalist Tim Harper, a CUNY J-School Craft professor and writing coach, will teach the class. He has written a dozen books, helped many other writers with their books, and written hundreds...
Writing to Ignite Your Soul’s Essence
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Words as Medicine,Words as Makers of Worlds: Writing to Ignite Your Soul’s Essence The exploration of the self can be a perilous journey fraught with uncertainty and resistance from within and without. Writing, when approached with the right intent, can be a meditation and a way to come in contact with the unlit parts of who we are. This workshop is not intended to make you an author, but to help you use writing to connect you fully to the...
$150
Writing for Late Night TV with Dave Hanson
Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy @ 104 W 14th St, New York, NY
In this unique course you will explore the styles and structures of a writing packet and how that leads to a writing job. You will also learn to draw the curtain back and show what it takes to write for a late night daily or weekly television show, the variety of types of jobs within a writing staff and a show staff at large, how best to prepare yourself to apply for such jobs and how it all relates to the world of stand up comedy, sketch and improv....
Meditative Writing Level 2: 1st Draft/Rewrite Intensive
Meditative Writing @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY
Do you wish you could just lock yourself in a room and bang out a rewrite in one weekend? Okay, let's do it. Use Intervaled Story Structure-Guided Visual Meditation to step into your characters at the top of each scene. Connect with the wants and needs of your character that build scene structure. Last workshop the average writer got sixty pages written. Prerequisite: Meditative Writing...
Writing the Immigrant Story
The Writers Studio @ 272 W 10th St, New York, NY
Ours is a country of immigrants, united in the search for something better but uniquely formed by the culture and history from which we originated. Exiles and entrepreneurs, sojourners and refugees, immigrants straddle worlds old and new. In this six-week workshop for fiction and memoir writers, we will explore different approaches to writing the immigrant experience. What lens do we bring to bear on life-altering events? How do we...
Television Writing
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,...
Op-Ed Writing and Pitching
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...
Playwriting Workshop: Finding the Humanity in Topical
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,...
$150
Sketch Comedy Writing
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,...
Fiction Writing Level 1
Gotham Writers Workshop @ 555 8th Ave, New York, NY
Unlock your imagination and learn the art of crafting captivating fictional tales in this immersive workshop. Discover the secrets of character development, plot creation, dialogue, setting, and other storytelling techniques, while gaining valuable insights into the world of publishing. Ignite your storytelling potential and bring your words to life at Gotham Writers Workshop.
Dramatic Writing: From Inspirations to Revelations
Irish Arts Center @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY
Through exercises (both on the page and in the space), students will walk away with a self-identified set of skills that they can use hone their skills and craft dynamic stories for the world to experience. Whether you are interested in full-length plays, musicals, short plays, or other forms, all forms of dramatic writing have essential ideas and techniques that can be utilized to bring out the drama in any story. Through exercises (both on the...
Game Writing Portfolio Workout
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
This class is virtual. RSVP via Eventbrite and we will send instructions and appropriate links for you to join via the email you provide per guest in your registration. Instructions will be sent approximately one hour before the event begins. Interested in writing for video games? Here's a seminar highlighting the skills needed and what types of samples are typically used or requested in a game writing portfolio or game writing test. This class...
$25
Sunday Evening Writing Workshop
New York Writers Intensive @ 22 Saint Marks Place Apt. D, New York, NY
Feel like getting some writing done? Join us on Sunday for Time to Write: The Sunday Evening Writing Workshop. Come write with us and get inspired in the company of other writers! The Sunday Evening Writing Workshop will inspire you creatively in two ways: Force you to write. Jay will kick off the session by giving everyone a writing prompt. You’ll then have one hour to write silently based on the prompt or, if you feel inspired, to do...
$20
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