Playwrights Foundation-New Play Institute Playwriting Classes

January 20, 2009 Anne Galjour Unleash Your Voice 20% Discount Now Available Have you ever started writing an exciting play, only to be bogged down by your inner critic? Have you stared at the page, agonizing over a single phrase for hours? Have you rewritten and deleted until your original idea is nowhere to be found? Every writer knows the feeling. This class, with award-winning playwright and performer Anne Galjour, will employ physical and vocal exercises and well as writing work to help you turn off your brain, stop second-guessing yourself and allow your play to emerge freely and honestly. A 20% discount is available now through January 25. Use discount code FREEVOICE. Feb. 4 – Apr. 8 Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Click here for more information and to register. Read an interview with Anne on PF’s blog. Dominic Orlando New Play Boot Camp Limited space is still available in Dominic Orlando’s New Play Boot Camp, an intensive two-week workshop designed to sweat your playwriting muscles and flex your imagination. By the end of this six-session workout, you’ll finish a forty-page one-act play or die trying. This class will give new and experienced playwrights a workout they’ll be feeling for years! Feb. 28 – Mar. 12 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 6 – 9 p.m. Click here for more information and to register. Michael Gene Sullivan Juggling Words: Doing Three Things at Once Don’t miss out on this class with the head writer of the SF Mime Troupe! Imagine watching a play filed with half-hearted action, phony character development and boring exposition, and realizing the play is yours. I hate that! This class will teach you what I learned the hard way: to juggle three things at once—plot, character and action—with grace and style. By the end of the class, each writer will have the tools to complete a new script or approach a draft from a fresh angle. Apr. 12 – May 17 Sundays, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Click here for more information and to register. Lee Blessing Afraid To Write that Play? Good. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to study with Pulitzer Prize nominee Lee Blessing. This four-day intensive will examine the usefulness of identifying our own worst fears and using them to create a play. On the principle that truly ambitious works in any genre result from penetrating the most fiercely-guarded areas of a writer’s psyche, we will seek to gain mastery over what terrifies us and convert it into drama. Each writer will be asked to generate a short piece based on these explorations, to be read and responded to in class. May 21 – 24 Thursday, 6 – 9 p.m. Friday, 6 – 9 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Click here for more information and to register. Coming Soon Thomas Bradshaw and Lisa Kron Acclaimed playwrights Thomas Bradshaw and Lisa Kron will be teaching classes in the New Play Institute this spring. More information coming soon! NEW! One-on-One Dramaturgy Available Starting Feb. 1 PF’s New Play Institute is now offering one-on-one dramaturgical sessions. Get valuable feedback, tailored to your play’s specific needs, to help you reach the next stage in your process. To sign up, email Sonia Fernández at sonia@playwrightsfoundation.org

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