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Design Thinking Bootcamp
The Design Gym @ 320 5th Ave, New York, NY
Design Thinking is a creative problem solving method and mindset. It’s human-centered, iterative, and collaborative. By using empathetic research techniques, creative brainstorming skills, and rapid prototyping techniques, Design Thinking leads to more interesting and effective ideas. It’s also pretty fun! In this Bootcamp, you will learn: A common language for using the five-phase Design Thinking process Tools that you can apply immediately...
$675
Getting Published in the Digital Age
Publishizer @ 279 Starr St, Brooklyn, NY
Writing is a deeply satisfying creative endeavour, but most writers never get their works to readers or publishers. The publishing world is complicated and difficult to navigate, and many authors do not know how to find a readership or a publisher for their writing. Crowdfunding is a phenomenal new tool for authors, changing the landscape of the publishing world. The brains behind Publishizer will show you how crowd-funding is disrupting the book...
All levels
21 and older
$75
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Summoning The Magic From Your Poetry & Photography
The Tiny Cupboard @ 1717 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
Summoning The Magic From Your Poetry & Photography Manuscript Do you think your poems and photographs have a power, language, and magic of their own? Maybe they have just the right energy to pair well in a book of poetry and photography. In this intimate workshop, meet author/artist Christine Sloan Stoddard, and go through exercises to help you see the strengths in your work. Together, we will look at sample poetry and photography work, including...
All levels
18 and older
$50
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Weekend Workshop: Playwriting Jumpstart
The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY
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 artists and writers of all genres looking for ideas, this workshop includes a series of in-class exercises which...
Finding your Voice: A 5-Week Stand Up Comedy Class
This 5-week course will serve as a laboratory for creating original stand-up material while discovering your truth and voice. You will learn how to translate your ideas into a crafted act through proper joke structure, writing & editing techniques and an unashamed commitment to your own, unique sense of humor! Instructor Christi Chiello (Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, IFC’s Comedy Crib, It’s Christi, B*tch! at Joe’s Pub)...
Playwriting: Short Forms
A quick glance through any play submission call board proves it: short plays are in high demand. Developing a strong portfolio of short plays is one of the fastest ways to become a produced playwright. Short plays require an ability to convey character, effective dialogue, and action without extensive exposition, and in this 10-week class, you’ll learn how not to waste a single word. From this class, you’ll take away the skills to craft surprising...
Lyric Writing
Lyrics are the foundation of musical theater storytelling and, for many playwrights, the final frontier. This 8-week class will teach you to apply your existing storytelling impulses to a lyric format. This class might be for you if you are: An early-career lyricist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking to delve into the world of musicals. A musical theater artist who wants to...
Screenwriting Structure
Describing his process, Woody Allen has said, “The idea emerges and once it gets to the writing stage, all the work’s been done. It’s really all the pre-work that’s the real heavy work.” This 10-week class will focus on all the “pre-work” that goes into transforming the glimmer of an idea into a full length screenplay. You will first screen several contemporary films and analyze the basic principles of the traditional three-act...
Getting to the Rewrite
Completing a draft is a huge accomplishment, but shifting your point of view from writing to rewriting can be disorienting and murky. In this 2-day writing workshop with Melissa Ross, you will dig into the play, ask it new questions, and emerge with a clear vision for your rewrites. This class might be for you if you: Have a draft of a play that you are ready to begin the revision process on, but need to get organized before embarking on rewrites....
The Rewrite
As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. Open to new and returning students, this class will start by establishing individualized writing goals to conquer over ten weeks. Whether you choose to embark on a rewrite of your entire play or focus on individual scenes, writing exercises and in-class discussion will inspire you to ask new questions of your play, look at it from various angles, and deconstruct it with...
A Play in 4 Days with Julian Sheppard
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
Starting a new play is like embarking on an adventure, and even the most seasoned explorers depend on their tool kit. Set yourself on the path to success by asking and answering the questions necessary to harness these tools and begin a successful first draft. Over four days, you will study character, dialogue, and structure, and then launch a new play. Day 1: Meet and develop your central characters. Day 2: Explore...
$420
Circuit Training for Writers - Getting It Written
Work it out…this is the pentathlon for writers. In each session of this 5-week class, a different award-winning playwright will throw writing exercises at you to make those creative muscles burn. Whether you need to combat writer’s block, work through a problematic scene, or just raise your writing to the next level, each instructor will challenge you to push even harder. You’ll leave this class with an arsenal of tried-and-true writing exercises...
Circuit Training for Writers - Getting It Ready
Putting yourself out there as a professional playwright takes more than just getting the words down on the page, but for many playwrights, the “business” end is the final, most terrifying frontier. This brand new Circuit Training class is designed to help you face, and—gasp! even enjoy—the process of developing the strong relationships required to take your play from the page to the stage. Led by an all-star team of power players, self-pitching...
Write Your Own Hamlet (Online)
Write a full-length play using William Shakeaspere's Hamlet as a blueprint in this 8-week class! You can set your version of Hamlet in Nazi Germany, during the Black Plague, or even on Mars in this fun and interactive class. This class might be for you if you are: A playwright looking to delve into the craft of adaptation. An artist of any type who loves Shakespeare and wants to explore retelling his work. Curious about Shakespeare and want...
Frantz Fanon: Anti-racism and Decolonization
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Frantz Fanon—psychiatrist, political theorist, poet, and revolutionary—was one of the twentieth century’s foremost theorists of race, colonialism, and decolonization. His writings became a touchstone of the global anti-colonial struggle of the 1960s, and they continue to inspire scholars and activists to this day. To what extent do Fanon’s writings, produced largely during the 1950’s, continue to speak to our situation today? And...
Meditative Writing For Screenwriters
Meditative Writing @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY
The Process of Creativity & Story Mining+ One-on-One Script Consultation At the intersection of science, art, and meditation we build an approach to writing that draws from the most powerful part of your mind. Cognitive and meditative exercises will be crafted specifically to help you get the most out of every writing session and discover the deepest truth of your unique voice. These tools can also be flipped upside-down to...
Dreaming on the Page: Creative Empowerment
Dreaming on the Page: Creative Empowerment through Writing and Dream Analysis Nighttime dreaming and writing make perfect bedfellows. Tapping into the intersection of these two universal and powerful modalities will allow us to home in on the wisdom of our dreaming minds and supercharge our writing. Exercises, games, and guided meditations in a safe, supportive atmosphere will help us: Quiet the inner censor Tune into our subconscious minds ...
How to Write a Killer Magazine Article Pitch
Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E 11th St, New York, NY
In this class targeted toward budding writers, learn how to come up with irresistable article ideas, how to get the attention of busy editors, how to target the right publication, and how to craft the pitch. Who is this class for? This class is for WRITERS who want to get their articles published in magazines. No professional writing experience required. Please note, this class is NOT for those seeking PR tips. What is this class about? Do you...
$50
The Science Behind the Libretto with Marsha Norman
With both an intuitive and a practical approach to a libretto’s unique dramatic structure, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman will lead the class in an examination of classic and contemporary musicals. Marsha’s hands-on training of her peerless, award-winning technique will provide both musical theater writers and those artists interested in the form an intimate glimpse at the process of a master storyteller. Students should be well...
Fiction Studio Session
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Interested in learning how to write fiction? An experienced fiction writer who wants to hone her craft? Want to take a writing class but not ready to workshop a story? An avid reader who wants to know how fiction is created? Newbies and long-term writers are welcome in this session to explore how authors use craft techniques to create exciting prose stories. Participants will complete at least two writing exercises—the first a warm-up writing...
$20
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