Scriptwriting Workshop

Mon 1 Jun to Fri 3 Jul. 415 South Street, Waltham, 02454. Dennis Nealon, Media Relations Director, 781-736-4205, nealon@brandeis.edu. Brandeis University - [events]

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Coroniti Time: 1:45pm - 4:15pm Room: TBA Contact: coroniti Additional Information for THA 104a - Playwriting Summer Session I: June 1 - July 3, 2009 Online and Wednesdays 1:45 - 04:15 This summer learn to write for stage and screen. Workshop members will work together to create exciting dramas with interesting characters, dramatic tension, and believable dialogue. We will discuss plays, musicals, and films as models for writing, choosing works by dramatists such as Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd), Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine), Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), Tina Howe, Tony Kushner (Angels in America) Alan Ball (American Beauty), Wendy Wasserstein, and David Mamet. TV Drama and Sitcom

You will create characters an audience will care about and settings that reflect the conflict in a scene. You will also be able to make use of humor in an otherwise serious scene, draw on the "unresolved conflict" between your characters, and incorporate the power of ritual in your scripts.

4 credit hours
Prof. Joseph Coroniti
Requirements Fulfilled: Writing Intensive (wi) and Creative Arts (ca) 

NOTE: This course is hybrid course which combines online learning using a course website in LATTE with traditional class meetings each Wednesday from 1:45pm-4:15pm.