Join award-winning playwright E. M. Lewis for a three hour playwriting workshop via Zoom that focuses on the art and craft of writing stage directions. We’ll study artfully written stage directions from both classic plays and new plays, talk about the power and...
How to Craft a Personal Theatrical Narrative
In this hands-on playwriting workshop, students will participate in a guided brainstorming exercise, then learn a simple way of crafting their own story into a theatrical presentation. In-class writing will culminate in participants sharing a simplified, structured...
Finding the Beat: The Musicality of Playwriting
A play doesn't need to be a musical or an opera to have musicality. Additionally, a playwright does not need to be a musician to find the musicality of their play. This 10-week course approaches the craft of playwriting through a musician's lens. Through exercises...
How to Tell Your Own Story
What happens when the material you are using to craft a play for the stage is being pulled from your own life story? Welcome to this intimate conversation about the writing process with playwrights and other theater makers, moderated by E. M. Lewis (The Gun Show), and...
(Play)Writing Thru the Quarantine
One of the most beautiful aspects of playwriting is that it is an invitation for others to collaborate, from the actors, directors, designers, stage managers and finally the audience. Playwriting is community-making. And that is something we surely and sorely need in...