Summer 2024: The Art of Directing – A 6-Week Collaborative Workshop (Invitational)
Taught by industry professional Pat Golden –
The collaboration between director and playwright on the development of a new play in process requires communication, curiosity, and a deeply cultivated understanding of the writer’s intentions and modes of expression. A successful collaboration creates a bond of trust that can lead to other ventures.
Unique Opportunity for Directors to Work with a Playwright!
Directors Collaborate with a Playwright to Workshop Act I of their New Play
Implement Playwright’s Newly Revised Scenes
Collaborate with Playwright in a Table to Reading Workshop
Learn To:
- Practically Apply of Skills Required to Collaborate with Playwrights
- Develop Relationships
- Connect with a Community of Playwrights and Actors
- Work In-depth to Implement Directing Skills You’ve Learned in AoD I and AoD II
- Understand the Playwright’s Work – What is Important to the Playwright?
- Cast Actors – It’s the Director’s #1 Job
- Direct Actors
- Sharpen Storytelling Skills
- Work with Playwright and Actors in Outside Meetings and Rehearsals to Present Workshop of Act I
PREREQUISITES – This course is open:
- By Invitation to Playwrights who previously Submitted Plays for consideration in the 2023 “Directors New Play Lab”
- By Invitation to Directors who have Completed AoD I & II
- Actors: Interested in Participating? Contact casting@hbstudio.org
Dates: *June 17 – July 22, 2024 (6 Weeks)
*Jump Right In: Outside Meetings with Playwright and Space for Initial Rehearsals Required
To Do Before First Class: Read Assigned Play; Meet with Playwright to Collaborate; Set Goals for this Developmental Workshop