Advanced Writing for Stage and Screen

'Advanced Writing for Stage and Screen' will look at the strengths of three dramatic art-forms - playwriting, screen and TV writing - and the particular challenge they share: the concept of 'dramatic action' which provides the 'motor' for a dramatic work. Initial writing exercises will explore these dramatic-writing forms, in conjunction with the study of representative plays, films and TV series. Final projects - a play, screenplay or TV pilot - will be discussed and critiqued in class as they progress, prior to a final rewrite. Prerequisite for this course is one previous dramatic writing course - either playwriting or screenwriting.