Complete, revise, and workshop your feature-length screenplay!
APPLY BY JANUARY 25!
This virtual year-long workshop in screenwriting, now in its second year, provides you with a community of serious screenwriters and a structured setting to complete, revise, and workshop a feature-length screenplay under the direction of award-winning screenwriter Alexandra Viets. The course is limited to 10 participants, providing an intensive, MFA level of discipline and rigor. Each participant will have the opportunity to present a total of 275 pages, including an original draft and the completed revision of a feature-length script.
Workshops include craft lectures on filmic structure, character development, scene dynamics and dialogue, in addition to working on adaptations. Class discussions will regularly incorporate screenings of select films to help illustrate and identify craft elements of particular interest and need. Guest lectures will include Q&A with professional screenwriters and producers. In the early summer, students will workshop their scenes with local actors, gaining the experience of professional input.
Schedule
The class meets virtually every other week for twenty-one sessions from February 4 to December 2, 2021 with a break during July. In the fall, there will be a staged reading of student scenes at The Writer’s Center and/or on Zoom.
Applications
To apply, please include a letter of interest along with a writing sample of a completed first act of approximately twenty-five to thirty pages. Preference will be given to intermediate to advanced screenwriters who are already immersed in a screenplay project. Limited need-based scholarship and payment plans available; inquire after acceptance to the program. Please do not register before being accepted.
Send your submission to laura.spencer@{{{{homeurl_non_www}}}} by January 25.
Note about COVID-19
Because of the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this class will be conducted on Zoom with possible hybrid sessions (you can participate either virtually or in person) later in the year.
