ADVANCED PLAYWRITING
Professional Training for Playwrights
This class is for aspiring playwrights who have completed the Beginning Playwriting Class and for experienced playwrights who have completed a full-length play or one-act, and want to hone their craft.
Students will learn the nuts and bolts of working on a play: writing and rewriting, fleshing out characters, streamlining action, refining dialogue and finessing structure. Students will be encouraged and aided in completing a short work, a one-act, or a draft of a full-length play. Work on an existing draft of a play is allowed.
Students will also receive critical analysis of their work; will explore premise, theme, character development, structure, and concentrate on cultivating story, character, and dialogue.
OUR INSTRUCTORS
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.
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.
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
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OCTOBER 13TH - DECEMBER 15TH
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MONDAYS 6 PM - 9 PM
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Second Semester
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FEBRUARY 2ND, 2026 - May 11TH, 2026
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MONDAYS, 6 PM – 9 PM
PAYMENT & REGISTRATION
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Classes are held on Zoom
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The yearly tuition fee for two semesters is $425 ($212.50/semester)
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If paid in installments, semesters are $283