Playwrights Workshop
Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Dec 10 – Mar 17
10 weeks
After an introductory orientation, members will bring in a one-minute exercise each week as well as material from a longer project. The workshop focus is on the structure of dramatic writing, emphasizing conflict and character objectives, letting dialogue and characterization grow out of structure. Since crafting a play is a collaborative process, participants are asked to share their work and also to offer comments which will help the other playwrights achieve what they are trying to accomplish.
There will be three sessions, each with nine meetings – Fall (September to November); Winter (December to February); Spring (March to April); plus a public presentation in May of the playwrights’ work.
Limited to 8.
| Tuition: | $200.00 | Public |
| $170.00 | Members |
About the Instructor
Tony Howarth
Patterson resident Tony Howarth has been running a playwrighting workshop for more than 15 seasons: at the Mint Theatre in Manhattan, where he was playwright-in-residence; at the Westbeth Theatre Center on Bank Street in Manhattan; and, most recently, at the Axial Theatre in Pleasantville. He is a widely-produced playwright with several musicals and a movie to his credit. Every January, he mentors young playwrights at the regional conference of the Kennedy Center’s College Theatre Festival.