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The Second Draft

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

Admissions Qualifications Successful candidates must participate in and pass an audition before registering for this program, schedule an audition at the "Request Info" submission above. All registrations are subject to approval by The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. The final magic ingredient for any play in development is hearing it aloud and putting it in front of an audience. This rigorous class is for those with complete...

(11) Intermediate 18 and older
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$600

10 sessions

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Completing Your Draft

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

All writers have that one play sitting in a drawer that they never quite finished. Over the course of ten weeks, you will work to complete your draft, ideally with some idea of what you'd like to explore or fix and knowing, of course, that everything may change. This class might be for you if: You got stuck and need some guidance finishing your draft. You're trying to figure out how your play should end or it went somewhere so unexpected that...

(11) Intermediate 18 and older
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$580

10 sessions

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Writers Block: Break Through the Struggle

Jacob Krueger Studio @ 247 W 35th St, New York, NY

When you were a child, creativity was easy, and pursuing the things you really wanted was as natural as waking up in the morning. In this workshop, you’ll learn to reconnect to that natural creativity and your voice as an artist and break through writers block, procrastination and fear so your writing, and unique voice, can flow effortlessly. Designed for writers of all genres, including Screenwriters, Playwrights, Novelists & Short Story Writers....

(43) All levels 18 and older
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$375

4 sessions

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The Inner Game

Jacob Krueger Studio @ 247 W 35th St, New York, NY

When you were a child, creativity was easy, and pursuing the things you really wanted was as natural as waking up in the morning. In this workshop, you'll learn to reconnect to that natural creativity and your voice as an artist and break through writers block, procrastination and fear so your writing, and unique voice, can flow effortlessly. Designed for writers of all genres, including Screenwriters, Playwrights, Novelists & Short Story Writers....

(43) All levels 16 and older
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$375

4 sessions

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TV Writing Workshop: The 1-Hour Pilot

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

This 4-day, two weekend workshop will focus on the core elements of writing an original 1-hour dramatic series pilot script—from premise to outline to completed teleplay. This workshop might be for you if you: Are a writer who has written in other formats and want to learn the fundamentals of creating a one hour series. Have taken the TV Writing Workshop: The 1-Hour Spec Script at ESPA. Want to write an original 1-hour drama pilot script....

(11) Beginner 18 and older
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$400

4 sessions

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Tools and Techniques of Poetry

West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

Share your story, sculpt your feelings & ideas, explore the art & craft of poetry! This workshop is open to both beginning & advanced writers. We will create a safe environment to cultivate and hone poetic tools & techniques.  Over the course of the workshop:  We will examine the poet's toolkit, e.g., line-breaks, rhyme, metaphor, forms etc., in a supportive atmosphere, through writing prompts and exercises. ...

(30) All levels 18 and older
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$370

6 sessions

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Writing Poetry for Everyone

West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

Anybody can write a poem. Let's explore the art & craft of poetry; learn how to express your feelings, sculpt your ideas, and share your stories, with musical language. Make your words sing. This workshop, suitable for both beginning & advanced writers, is a safe space to explore the tools & techniques of writing poetry. We will examine the poet's toolkit, in a supportive atmosphere, through in-class writing prompts & exercises....

(30) All levels 18 and older
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$370

6 sessions

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The Heart of the Matter

West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

Making the reader feel is one of the most important goals of creative writing.  But there aren’t cheap shortcuts and creating emotion on the page is an artful enterprise.   This seminar will discuss the importance of risking sentimentality to get at sentiment.  Some methods we’ll look at include surprise, restraint, opposing forces, and the use of concrete, resonate detail.  The seminar will include a talk, discussion,...

(30) All levels 18 and older
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$125
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Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Every life is a unique, dynamic, unfolding, sacred story, but few of us try to figure out what our story is really about, who is writing our script, why we’ve selected certain roles, or how to become happier, more fully expressed characters.  In this class for novices and habitual writers alike, we will discover structured writing exercises designed to help those of us who feel stuck—in a dead-end job, a challenging relationship, or stage...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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$150

4 sessions

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Weekend Playwriting Workshop: Jumpstart and Revisions

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

This two day weekend workshop combines Jumpstart and Revisions into one weekend.  Playwriting Jumpstart: 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...

(66) Intermediate 18 and older
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$350
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Craft: A 4-Week Screenwriting Intensive

Jacob Krueger Studio @ 247 W 35th St, New York, NY

What is the fastest most efficient way to master something? Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. In this class you will be focusing strictly on Craft. By stepping away from your story and your characters we get the opportunity to really dig in and morph your craft into the most effective tools in your arsenal. Before they ever step out onto the field, pitchers train. A pitcher will throw curveball after curveball after curve ball until...

(43) Intermediate 18 and older
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$375

4 sessions

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Freelancing Workshop

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

We’ll cover generating ideas, understanding markets, getting to the right editor, pitching the story, and contracts and rights issues. Students will also write in-class pitches, to be critiqued on the spot, for magazines and web sites. Longtime independent journalist Tim Harper, a CUNY J-School Craft professor and writing coach, will teach the class. He has written a dozen books, helped many other writers with their books, and written hundreds...

(64) All levels 18 and older
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$109

2 sessions

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Writing to Ignite Your Soul’s Essence

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Words as Medicine,Words as Makers of Worlds: Writing to Ignite Your Soul’s Essence  The exploration of the self can be a perilous journey fraught with uncertainty and resistance from within and without. Writing, when approached with the right intent, can be a meditation and a way to come in contact with the unlit parts of who we are. This workshop is not intended to make you an author, but to help you use writing to connect you fully to the...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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$150
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Writing for Late Night TV with Dave Hanson

Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy @ 104 W 14th St, New York, NY

In this unique course you will explore the styles and structures of a writing packet and how that leads to a writing job. You will also learn to draw the curtain back and show what it takes to write for a late night daily or weekly television show, the variety of types of jobs within a writing staff and a show staff at large, how best to prepare yourself to apply for such jobs and how it all relates to the world of stand up comedy, sketch and improv....

(1) All levels 16 and older
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$295

4 sessions

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Meditative Writing Level 2: 1st Draft/Rewrite Intensive

Meditative Writing @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY

Do you wish you could just lock yourself in a room and bang out a rewrite in one weekend? Okay, let's do it. Use Intervaled Story Structure-Guided Visual Meditation to step into your characters at the top of each scene.  Connect with the wants and needs of your character that build scene structure.  Last workshop the average writer got sixty pages written.  ​​Prerequisite:  Meditative Writing...

(5) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$475

3 sessions

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Writing the Immigrant Story

The Writers Studio @ 272 W 10th St, New York, NY

Ours is a country of immigrants, united in the search for something better but uniquely formed by the culture and history from which we originated. Exiles and entrepreneurs, sojourners and refugees, immigrants straddle worlds old and new. In this six-week workshop for fiction and memoir writers, we will explore different approaches to writing the immigrant experience. What lens do we bring to bear on life-altering events? How do we...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$325

6 sessions

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Television Writing

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

This class is for playwrights who want the tools to transition from stage to screen. Writing for television has the potential to be not only artistically satisfying, but lucrative as well—just ask Aaron Sorkin from “The Newsroom”, Sarah Treem from “House of Cards”, Itamar Moses from “Boardwalk Empire”, or Heidi Schreck and Rajiv Joseph from “Nurse Jackie”, among many other playwrights-turned-television writers. In this 10-week class,...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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$280

2 sessions

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Op-Ed Writing and Pitching

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

Learn to write persuasive opinion editorials One way to share your expertise, establish your professional reputation, raise the visibility of your organization and promote a cause dear to your heart is to pen persuasive opinion pieces. In this hands-on two-session workshop, we will guide you through the following: What is (and is not) an op-ed Conceiving and honing a compelling idea suitable to your expertise and experience Commanding an audience's...

(64) Beginner 18 and older
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$79

2 sessions

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Playwriting Workshop: Finding the Humanity in Topical

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

Playwriting Workshop: Finding the Humanity in Topical Stories We live in, as the fabled Chinese curse tells us, interesting times. A lot of contemporary writing addresses topical issues. What can get lost in this effort are the human stories that make for compelling drama. If a writer is not careful, they may find themselves writing a lecture instead of a play. And, as Aristotle reminds us - we should serve the story, not our agenda. In this workshop,...

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$150
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Sketch Comedy Writing

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

A sketch comedy writing workshop, focusing on the history, elements, structure, and forms. Comedy writing tools, techniques, and exercises will be introduced. Students will write original comedy sketches every week both in class and out and workshop them in a supportive class environment. Additional topics will include tools for eliminating writer’s block, using improv to enhance the creative process, punching up sketches with a writer’s roundtable,...

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$150

4 sessions

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