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🟢 Spring AB : March 1 - May 24 (11 sessions/22 hours)

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🟩 Spring AB: March 3 - May 26 (11 sessions/22 hours)

Mentor: Francesca Chilcote

Tuesdays at Studio 39

🟢 Spring AB : March 1 - May 24

(11 sessions/22 hours)

Theater, Creative Writing, and Film & New Media primes welcome and encouraged.

This course will introduce students to the wonderful, wacky world of sketch comedy! This comedy class will have a writing focus, providing students the opportunity to develop and write their own comedic material.

Modeling the processes of the SNL (Saturday Night Live) writing team, students will explore the different types of sketch and sketch comedy, and use this understanding to pitch characters, concepts, bits, and other ideas for an evening of sketch comedy. Ideas will be written in small groups or individuals and compiled into a script for a "first read" in the final session.

Mentors: Maggie Heemstra & Lynn Schwartz

Tuesdays at Studio 39

🟢 Spring AB : March 1 - May 24

(11 sessions/22 hours)

All primes welcome and encouraged, particularly Creative Writing, Acting, Dance, Film & New Media.

Plot and the Hero's Journey (3 Sessions) March 1, 15, and 22

Plot is the organizing force that makes our stories (in any media) progress and insists that something happen. In good fiction and memoir, it’s essential to support plot with other elements of craft such as characterization, theme, suspense, and conflict. Let’s explore the elements of the Hero’s Journey to see how this ancient storytelling format helps to create satisfying stories. We’ll learn to avoid formulaic plots and understand how characters drive an organic narrative from beginning to end.

Scene Exploration for All Artistic Media (4 Sessions) March 29, April 5, 19, and 26

Most work in the arts, including literature, song lyrics, plays, screenplays, and dance tell a story. And regardless of your discipline, your essential tool is scene. Scene is the foundational building block of a larger story. Learn the components and function of scene, how to identify the many scene types, and how to convey your specific intention so that a reader or audience will feel engaged and satisfied with your storytelling.

Micro-Memoir (3 Sessions) May 10, 17, and 24

This short form (under 750 words and often shorter than 500 words) focuses on one moment in a life. Like full-length memoir, these tiny, true stories engage a reader at an emotional level and offer a new understanding of what it means to be human. Micro-memoir stories can stand on their own and are also a great way for writers to explore ideas for a larger work.