Generative Playwriting with the Internal and External World PART 1.5 (with Leslie Gauthier on Zoom)

In this course, students will be given generative, low-stakes writing exercises meant to reveal settings, characters, dialogue, and images in order to excavate and encourage exciting and raw first drafts. From the first draft, students will be given revision tools and guidance on how to form those raw materials into a story for the stage.

This course stands alone, but it pairs well with Generative Playwriting with the Internal and External World PART 1. If you are a returning student, the difference between the first and second class will be that we discuss effective and positive ways to give and receive feedback. So this second course will be both generative and feedback-focused. You can take this course without having taken the first course. All are welcome!

Leslie Gauthier is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Elsewhere (semifinalist Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, semifinalist LaMama Experiments in Playwriting),  Cul-de-Sac (AFF…