From the Page to the Stage: Adapting a short story into a play

Instructor:  Angela Jackson-Brown
Sometimes we get stuck into a writing rut believing a story can only be told in one way or other times we get fearful that we are only talented enough to write in the same genre we’ve always written in. But one thing we need to learn as writers is that once we become good storytellers, there is no genre that should intimidate us. Once we learn the basics of the genre, we can fluently move from one to the other. The purpose of this workshop is to instruct you on how to take a short story of your own OR a short story you like that was written by someone else and adapt it into a play. This process will also help you become stronger short story writers as you begin to see how important setting and character mannerisms can be.