21 Best Playwriting Creative Writing Classes in 2024

An 8-week class for playwrights of all levels to develop their first draft. Instructors provide exercises, feedback, and a supportive environment to encourage creativity. Classes involve workshopping pages and engaging discussions.

This course explores interdisciplinary playwriting through creative exercises in various mediums such as sculpture, digital media, and scientific research. Participants will create short plays and receive mini-lectures related to their explorations.

This all-levels course is designed to help you discover your dramatic voice and to lure out those wild and woolly characters clamoring to tell their story through you. We'll cover the ground rules of the stage and see how the best plays and playwrights adhere to, and continually break, them.

In this trauma-informed, skilled based workshop, you will learn embodied writing techniques from a playwright and actor. Whether you are a fiction writer, a memoirist, or a screenwriter, incorporating these embodied writing techniques will create a more vivid reading/viewing experience for your audience.

Intro to Playwriting is a six-week course designed for beginners who want to write their first stage play, and intermediate playwrights seeking a refresher on the fundamentals.

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.

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.