ScriptWorks

FRONTERAFEST 101

A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore

Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm

MAKING IT [FUN] AND GOING TO MARKET (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
With Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Tuesdays, May 24 & 31, June 7 & 14, 7-9:30 pm

$100 ScriptWorks/ $125 General
Drop-in $30 ScriptWorks/ $35 General
Email info@scriptworks.org for reservation and location

Making it [fun] and going to market (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
This workshop begins with the proposal that new plays need time, space, and the support (and challenge) of comrades to get better. The playwright needs to witness the work. Over a period of four weeks, we will work as a community to create bad works that get better. And then we’ll plan on where they might go to build an audience to get even better. Artists may come for the whole, or for parts, although the writing used in class as examples will come from the first two weeks of work.

THE WORST PLAY I NEVER WROTE with Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
part of Nouveau 47′s Nouveau Frontiers New Works Festival
Saturday, May 21st from 2-4pm
Nouveau 47 at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park (map)

Admission is $10 at the door! Bring paper and pen.

This workshop comes to creative development from the least likely direction – that of prospective failure – for the purposes of freeing up our creative voices and illustrating just how capable we already are at rescuing bad writing, especially after a first reading, during which everyone has fidgeted awkardly. Working separately, but caucusing together, we’ll find ways to rescue bad plots, stilted dialogue, corny jokes, and overly long descriptions (as in the first sentence). Two dimensional characters will expand; melodramas will find their hidden Brecht; unnecessary adverbs will get pruned out; and we’ll all be the wiser. Really. Finally, because the workshop leader bragged about it in his bio, we’ll discuss where we might take our new plays for continued chrysalis-like development.

ScriptWorks presents a Dramatis Personae Workshop with Octavio Solis
Tuesday, May 3rd 7 – 9:30pm
Dougherty Arts Center
1110 Barton Springs Rd. (map)

$20 ScriptWorks members/$25 general
Reserve your seat by emailing info-at-scriptworks.org

This class with award-winning playwright Octavio Solis will involve relaxation and visualization exercises as part of the writing process. Participants will do their writing in the class and then read what they wrote aloud.

THE D/FW PORTION OF THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

HOLD ON TO YOUR SHORTS!
led by Amparo Garcia-Crow

Austin – Saturday, November 13th @2:00, State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave
DFW – Monday, November 15th @ 7:00, Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
$20 ASW members/ $35 General

RSVP: christi@scriptworks.org

Big or small, short or long, the art of telling a story has its 1, 2, 3s. Come brush up on how you successfully turn big stories into small packages!

FRONTERAFEST 101

A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore

WHEN:
Wednesday, September 15, 7:00 pm

WHERE:
Hyde Park Theatre
511 W. 43rd St.

COST:
$5 ASW members; $10 general

INFO/RESERVATIONS:
christi-at-scriptworks.org

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This workshop, led by ScriptWorks Executive Director and FronteraFest Producer Christina J. Moore, will guide participants through the process of preparing a piece for FronteraFest. From resources for finding actors, directors, and rehearsal space to the ins and outs of the technical rehearsal, we’ll cover it all.

Writing the Impossible
Saturday, June 26 2-4pm
Dougherty Art Center
1110 Barton Springs Road
Cost: $20 for ASW/ $35 for non-members

Playwright Jose Rivera encourages us to include at least one impossible thing in each of our plays. In the play that you are writing or even just thinking about, what is your one impossible thing? What *can* it be? We’ll study Rivera’s “36 Assumptions About Playwriting,” and specifically the idea of impossibility. The workshop will also include writing exercises to make room for impossibility in character, dialogue, scene direction and events.

This 3 hour workshop will provide a practical approach to the basics of screenwriting with an emphasis on structure as well as the application of those basics to adapting your play for the screen. The “Business of the Business”, including agents, meetings, deals and contracts, the Writers Guild of America, and credits will also be discussed.

The Art & Craft of Story Making
Tuesday, November 10 7:00-9:30 pm
State Theatre Classroom
719 Congress Ave.

Austin Script Works is proud to present this Master Class with nationally-renowned playwright Steven Dietz as part of our Dramatis Personae series. The class will focus on the “living play”. Since we know that simply putting words and action onstage does not “activate” a play, what narrative strategies must be employed to bring a theatrical story to life? This class will detail candid and tangible tools of the playwright’s craft that can be used to make a play move and change, push forward, in short: come to life.

A primer in self-producing for the fringe
A workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
Wednesday, September 16th @7:30 PM
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St.
ASW $5 / General $10

This workshop, led by ASW Executive Director and FronteraFest Producer Christina J. Moore, will guide participants through the process of preparing a piece for FronteraFest.