Beginning Playwriting - Write a Play and Get Produced!
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.
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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Thank you for checking out my course!
Here are a few facts about me...
~ I have been teaching writing and theatre in both public and private schools since 1997.
~ Several of my own works are published (plays and non-fiction).
~ There have been well over 100 productions of my stage plays on six continents (Antarctica remains elusive) as well as multiple film adaptations.
~ My book Absolutely Everything** You Need to Know About Teaching and Performing Improv is available on Amazon.
~ My horror-comedy Screenplay Dead (Re)Tired has received honors from 25 different film festivals and screenplay competitions including the Nashville Film Festival.
~ I have run an improv festival for secondary students since 1999.
~ I am a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Education:
~ I hold two BFA degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University
~ I earned my Masters of Education in Learning and Technology from Western Governors University
~ I am certified to teach English, speech, and theatre