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ADVANCED PLAYWRITING

Professional Training for Playwrights

Advanced Playwriting is designed for experienced playwrights who have completed at least two one-act plays or one full-length play and are ready to deepen and refine their craft. This course is intended for writers with prior playwriting training or equivalent professional experience.

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Students will focus on the advanced mechanics of play development, including rigorous writing and rewriting, deepening character complexity, sharpening dramatic action, refining dialogue, and strengthening structural choices. Writers may develop a new short work, one-act, or full-length play, or continue working on an existing draft.

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Through detailed feedback and critical analysis, students will examine premise, theme, character development, and structure, with an emphasis on elevating story, character, and dialogue to a professional level.

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Instruction is led by esteemed, award-winning playwrights Kermit Frazier, Cassandra Medley, and Richard Wesley, offering students the opportunity to learn from master artists with distinguished careers in theater.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

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Kermit Frazier
Kermit is a prolific playwright, television writer, and Professor Emeritus at Adelphi University, with a substantial body of work produced at theaters nationwide, and his accomplishments were highlighted in a full-page New York Times article in June 2020.
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Cassandra Medley
A renowned playwright. Some of her produced plays like "American Slavery Project," "Cell," and "Daughter," have received several awards, including the August Wilson Playwriting Award. She has also received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Playwriting and the Going To The River Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Richard Wesley
In his forty-fifth year as a writer for stage, screen, and television, he is a distinguished award-winner, a former Vice President of the Writers Guild of America, East, and an Associate Professor at New York University. He is married to novelist Valerie Wilson Wesley.
SCHEDULE

First Semester

  • OCTOBER 13TH - DECEMBER 15TH 

  • MONDAYS 6 PM - 9 PM 

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Second Semester

  • FEBRUARY 2ND, 2026 - May 11TH, 2026

  • MONDAYS, 6 PM – 9 PM

PAYMENT & REGISTRATION

  • Classes are held on Zoom

  • The yearly tuition fee for two semesters is $425 ($212.50/semester)

  • If paid in installments, semesters are $283

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