22 Best Playwriting Creative Writing Classes in 2024

Writing for the theatre is a time-based art form. In this session we’ll explore various ways of observing how time operates dramatically, approaches for making deliberate choices about time, and how those narrative choices effect the audience’s experience of story. Come ready to write and play.

Join dramaturg, playwright, and fight/intimacy director Cha Ramos as she guides us through some questions and considerations for writing specific, expansive, and collaborative stories of violence and intimacy.

Join playwright Roger Q . Mason and dramaturg Gaven D. Trinidad as our course builds a new model of playwright-dramaturg collaboration. Drawing from jazz music as a method of creation, Mason and Trinidad will showcase how you can collaborate to build plays that engage with and honor community.

For playwrights who are in process with a first draft or ready to embark on a rewrite, this 10-week class with playwright, director, and dramaturg Mêlisa Annis will encourage you to focus not on an end product, but on what your play needs to deepen in this moment.

If you're just stepping into the world of playwriting, welcome! In this 5-week class, you will build a toolbox of the fundamentals, so your first play (and each play you write after that!) can be built on a strong foundation. The goal is to get a comprehensive overview of the possibilities within playwriting.

Having trouble starting or following through with your screenplay? Designed as both a workshop and instruction on craft as a focus, students will have an opportunity to learn the art form of screenwriting, generate work in class, and share and receive feedback from their peers and teaching artist.

Writing for the theatre is a time-based art form. In this session we’ll explore various ways of observing how time operates dramatically, approaches for making deliberate choices about time, and how those narrative choices effect the audience’s experience of story. Come ready to write and play.

This class is an exploration of playwriting and its basic fundamentals. Our work is read aloud as a group, followed by discussion, and inspiring new writing of each other. The core focus of the class is on developing your voice as a writer.

A play will not soar in performance unless it's great on the page. This online course will teach you how to tell a story that is theatrical and produceable from a Christian perspective. On top of that you will also learn about structure, engaging plot, and scene development.

This is a comprehensive course designed to teach aspiring playwrights the methods and skills necessary to create their own short stage plays from idea inception through polished final draft execution.

A short play is a fantastic way of quickly getting your writing in front of people to entertain, inform and present your skills. Through this course you will learn how to examine ideas to find the story and develop them into scenes.

This is a fun and practical creative writing course designed to get you excited about creating your original plays and give you the confidence you need to get them produced. Writing techniques and literary devices will be covered to help you discover, perfect, and share your own unique writer's voice.