Instructor: Andrew Black
Date: 8 Wednesdays: October 1, 8, 15, 22; November 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Marian University, Marian Hall #215 (Building #17 on the campus map)
Cost: $304 nonmembers, $208 members, $176 student members/teacher members/senior members/Military members
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Okay, you’re ready to start writing a full-length play….now what? You’ve written at least one short play, maybe a few. You understanding the basic elements of narrative construction and know how to use them….mostly. You may have even written a full-length play already and want to start another one. You are pretty sure you have an idea already you want to develop, or you may already have some pages. And you think could use some support to stay on track during the writing process and get some feedback as you go. This workshop is for you! Over the eight-session workshop, you will be expected to bring in new pages every week. Your work will be read (in some cases, by professional actors who join the class for fun and participate in the feedback), and you will be part of supportive community of writers who will help you develop your work, and make suggestions for ways to improve it. Come one, come all. (Pre-requisite: students must have taken the Foundations of Playwriting class or receive the instructor’s permission (andrewblacksf@gmail.com)

Andrew Black has an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University, where he was the recipient of the prestigious Trisolini Fellowship. His full-length play Strange Bedfellows (co-written with Patricia Milton) is currently being produced by Theater Out in Orange County. Andrew’s full-length play Another Dude’s Slingbackswon the New Works of Merit award in 2008 and received its world premiere at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre in New York City in March, 2010. His full-length The Second Weekend in September had its world premiere at City Lights Theater in San Jose, California, in May of 2010. His newest work, Puppet Man, will be read at the Multi-Stages Theater in New York in early 2014. Andrew has had many short plays produced in festivals around the country. http://blackandmilton.wordpress.com/