(Play)Writing During 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 through such isolating times.

And so, we welcome all to take part in a Remote Playwriting Class, taught by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Dan Kitrosser.

Each session will be divided into two parts:

Part One
Lectursize!
1 hour

Part Lecture / Part Discussion / Part Exercise. Each week we’ll cover one element of playwriting, we’ll read a play, discuss the element of playwriting through that play, take part in playwriting exercises, commune & laugh.

Part Two
Workshop Time
Up to 2 hours

After the lecture, playwrights will virtually congregate to share pages of their play and receive feedback from Dan and the group in a curated conversation.

Dan Kitrosser is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and storyteller. He co-wrote the screenplay WE THE ANIMALS which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2018, winning the NEXT Innovator Award, the Best Narrative at OutFest 2018 and is nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and a GLAAD Award.  His plays include TAR BABY (First Fringe Award, Edinburgh Fringe, and an Amnesty International Citation for Excellence), DEAD SPECIAL CRABS (monologues published in Smith & Kraus Best Men’s and Women’s…) and THE MUMBLINGS (optioned for TV series by FOX). He is currently working on the screen adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel SEARCHING FOR CALEB and his play THIRD PERSON was just nominated for a Wilde Award for Best Script after its production at the Great Escape Theater in Marshall, Michigan. Dan is the 2018 Peter Shaffer Award Winner, a 2016 TimeWarner 150 Fellow, a 2014 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, a 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Fellow, a 2015 TerraNOVA Collective Groundbreaker, a Maryland Filmmakers Fellow. Dan received the Fringe First Award for Playwriting at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a Special Citation from Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Awards.

Dan is the Artistic Director of Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival. He received his MFA from The New School for Drama in 2014.  Dan is currently on faculty at The New School for Performing Arts, and has taught at Writopia Lab, The Ape, Couch Collective, Bag n’ Baggage and in 2013, he was awarded a Gold Model for Excellence for teaching Creative Writing from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

[Note that this runs from May 18th – June 22nd. See the source below for more details.]