Experimental Theater Writing Workshop – Winter 2025
Seeking female or female-identifying experimental writers for the Experimental Theater Writing Workshop. This is a series of ten Zoom classes held Tuesday evenings from 01/07 – 03/11. Classes will consist of discussions of homework material; prompt assignments; and readings of work generated in class, culminating in final presentations.
This course will be applications of literary theory/movements to playwriting. Literary movements and theories allow us to see the social response of theatre to the world. While these movements and theories enlighten us to historical artistic responses, they can also seem like arcane academic subjects to the writer. Literary theories give us tools to expand the way we think of theatrical moments and scenes. Using concepts from musical composition, we will apply them within the framework of theatre.
Questions we may ask are: can some of these concepts unearth new dramatic possibilities for the writer? Can theories or techniques of the past and/or music be relevant in today’s socio-political landscape?
If we are seeking new ways to express ourselves as dramatists and theatre makers, we might continue our search for other techniques that allow us to expand our toolkit and create unique experiences for our audiences.
The goals of this course are: 1) to gain additional theater writing techniques which expand the writer’s current theatrical repertoire; 2) to investigate writing techniques as a representation of a writer’s response to the world; and 3) to strengthen a connection between theatre and other theories and movements.
Guidelines:
- 1 submission per playwright
- 1 experimental writing sample (10 pages max)
- Title page on sample should contain:
o title
o name
o contact info
- Second page should contain:
o Character breakdown
o setting
o time
- file name of sample play should read: titleOfPlay_lastname_exp.pdf
Writers are selected based on the nature of the work submitted and availability. By experimental, we mean work that challenges the conventional elements of theater. If selected, the fee is $400 ($350 for returning playwrights). Please note that this is an intensive course with the expectation that the writer will participate in class discussion and write 10 pages of new material outside the class each week.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/NgrqJVpkjUCyr5pt5
Deadline: December 27th, 2024 @ 5 pm. Notification first week in January.
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