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This course will advance the work of Meisner I into the exploration of text and scene work. We will discover how to transform words on the page into vital improvisation by continually giving up our ideas of how we think a scene should be acted and trusting in what is actually happening between the actors on stage, in the moment. We will embark on a process of character
This advanced class will be modeled after a professional playwrights development lab. Each writer will focus on intensively revising 1-2 plays, with the goal of having these plays submission-ready by the end of the term. Writers will have several opportunities during the term to workshop their plays with actors from Dina Janis' New Play Development
One secret to great playwriting is that what you put offstage is just as important as what you put on. In this class, we will explore a variety of offstage worlds: from realistic to fantastical, from richly detailed to deliciously sparse. We will think about how playwrights bring offstage environments to life through language—how a single
Three-Card Monte. Blind Man's Bluff. Poker. Charades. Chicken. What do onstage games reveal about our characters? Are onstage games always dangerous? How can the play itself become a game played with the audience? In this course, we will read plays in which characters play games onstage (The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, Topdog/Underdog by
