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Beginning Playwriting - Write a Play and Get Produced!
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1,241 students

Beginning Playwriting - Write a Play and Get Produced!

Improve dialogue, characterization, conflict, and plot to write your first script and become a successful playwright
Created byTrace Crawford
Last updated 4/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to think in and write engaging dialogue
  • The playwriting terminology you absolutely need to know
  • How to correctly format your playscripts
  • Fixing common problems in dialogue, plot, character, and conflict
  • How to build interesting characters
  • The specific questions that you need to ask yourself about your plays
  • How to effectively use punctuation to improve your characters and dialogue
  • By the end of the class, you will have a completed short script ready to send to theatres, publishers, or contests.

Course content

13 sections • 50 lectures • 3h 46m total length

  • Introduction5:37

    Introduction, Your Writer's Journal

    1. Introduction and overview of the course

  • How Udemy Works!3:20

    Before we get cracking, here are a few reminders about how Udemy in general and this course will work.

  • A Quick Word About Your Writer's Journal1:54

    Introduction, Your Writer's Journal

    2. How to write in a Writer's Journal

    - Written list of all Writer’s Journal Prompts used throughout the course

Requirements

  • Just a desire to write and a willingness to try the activities in the course.

Description

Course Overview:

So, how do you write a play?

This is a fun and practical creative writing course designed to get YOU excited about creating your own original plays and give you the confidence you need to get them produced.

Writing techniques, literary devices, and specialized skills will be covered to help you discover, perfect, and share your own unique writer's voice.

While review quizzes over major concepts are provided along the way, the true measure of your progress will be in the authentic writing projects that you will complete as you progress toward your goal of becoming a successful and confident playwright!


The Course Includes:

  • 49 video lectures organized into 12 easy to understand lessons/subject areas

    • Each lesson is broken down into multiple video lectures that include:

      • A quick writing assignment aligned with the day's goals

      • A lesson covering an area of course content

      • A practical application project to get you using your new skill

  • 9 online review quizzes presented throughout the course

    • Quizzes are designed to reinforce the major concepts discussed in the class

  • 39 graphics, notes, templates, assignments, or outside resources to further your knowledge base

    • Supplemental materials are provided for every lesson

  • Over 3 1/2 hours of video lessons

  • By the end of this course - you WILL have written a play!


Course Goals:

Through taking this course, you will increase your understanding of playwriting as you:

  • begin thinking of story in terms of dialogue

  • employ powerful strategies for developing interesting and engaging characters

  • determine how to effectively use punctuation to increase meaning, character, and conflict

  • learn the questions you need to ask yourself as you write and revise

  • utilize solutions to fix the most common problems in dialogue, plot, character, and conflict

  • apply correct script formatting to your original scripts

  • master the most important playwriting vocabulary that every script writer should know

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone looking to try their hand at writing a play or improving their dialogue

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