Generative Playwriting with the Internal and External World PART 1 (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. Though this course stands alone, it pairs well with Generative Playwriting with the Internal and External World PART 1.5.

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 second-rounder, Terrence McNally New Works semifinalist), and Greetings! From the Mojave (BAM, September 2024). She earned her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2024, and is a recent recipient of the Rona Jaffe Fellowship and Himan Brown award for creative writing. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times and…