ADVANCED PLAYWRITING

  • KERMIT FRAZIER

    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

    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

    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.

ADVANCED PLAYWRITING

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 receive critical analysis of their work; will explore premise, theme, character development, structure, and concentrate on cultivating story, character, and dialogue.

Classes are typically held on Zoom. The yearly tuition fee for two semesters is $425. The second semester is $212.50. If you paid in installments, your final payment to register for the Spring Semester is $283.00.

ADVANCED PLAYWRITING schedule

First Semester

Oct. 7, 2024 - Dec. 16, 2024
Mondays, 6 – 9 PM

Second Semester

Feb. 3, 2024 - May 12, 2024
Mondays, 6 – 9 PM