WTP offers master classes and intensive training in playwriting and new play dramaturgy.
Featuring guest dramatugs and award-winning directors! We are here to push the boundaries of new theatre with Master Class topics such as:
• Articulating Your Point of View with award-winning director Kimberly Senior
• WTP New Play Dramaturgy Intensive with Managing Artistic Director Amber Bradshaw
• How to break the Rules of Playwriting with Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
• New Development Dramaturgy and Directing Practices with Jamil Jude
• The First Seven Minutes: Play Beginnings with Celise Kalke
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Read about Amber Bradshaw
Amber Bradshaw (she/they) is an Atlanta-based dramaturg, director, and multidisciplinary artist devoted to new play development. A Southern queer artist, Amber’s work centers on collaboration, process, and the excavation of story in its earliest stages. Since 2006, they have worked with Actor’s Express, Theater Emory, Synchronicity Theatre, the Center for Puppetry Arts, and more.
At Working Title Playwrights, Amber dramaturgs for the Ethel Woolson Lab and Table Series, teaches new play intensives, and moderates across programs. They also host TABLEWORK: How New Plays Get Made, a podcast exploring creative process.
Amber’s practice emphasizes early draft dramaturgy, supporting playwrights in discovery rather than revision, and fostering spaces where new work can take shape with rigor, curiosity, and care.
The First Draft: Tap into the Magic of Early Playwriting in Collaboration Virtual Master Class with Amber Bradshaw
DATES:
March 28 & 29
from 1-4pm ET
COST:
$75 for WTP members
$125 for non-members
In this interactive master class, WTP Managing Artistic Director Amber Bradshaw explores the art of early draft collaboration. The goal is not to fix a play, but to excavate it. Students will bring 10-minute selections of their own scripts for live dramaturgy in class, using real work to explore how plays take shape through curiosity, discovery, and collaboration.
Ideal for playwrights, dramaturgs, directors, producers, and new play leaders, this course offers practical tools for supporting artists while the play is still being discovered.
What you’ll get from this workshop:
– Essential tools and resources for playwrights and dramaturgs collaborating in the play development process
– A practical Early Draft Dramaturgy Guide
– A curated reading list to inspire structure, style, and bold playwriting choices
Upcoming Intensives
New Play Dramaturgy and Playwriting Intensive
This class is driven by the embodied playwriting methods of Maria Irene Fornés, the structural genius of Suzan-Lori Parks and her Essays on Style, the poetic and hallucinatory world of French playwright Marguerite Duras and the bravado of a live performance artist and self-producer who will make it happen no matter the cost (Our Managing Artistic director, Amber Bradshaw).
After more than 20 years of giving feedback, Amber has learned that the goal is not to fix, but to excavate.
As a new play dramaturg, supporting playwrights is a deep dive into their subconscious, exploring the depths of their storytelling into places even they have never been. Responding to the work of an artist is an art all its own.
This course is designed to help you open up your mind to the idea that anything is possible and any story can be told, it’s just a matter of how. Each playwright is building their own planet, as as a new play dramaturg, your mind must be open enough and curious enough to build any planet they dream up.
We will cover best practices to support playwriting at all levels of experience, from the very beginning to a World Premiere production. WTP is a leader in Early Draft Dramaturgy, working with playwrights at the very early stages of their drafts. We believe playwrights should work together and with dramaturgs, not in isolation.
Many sessions will feature a guest dramaturg who will co-facilitate with Amber and/or a guest playwright to speak about their work.
If you are interested in learning more about this intensive please email managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com or join our mailing list.
2026
DEADLINE TO APPLY:
February 20
March-September, 2 sessions per month (1 virtual, 1 in-person)
Applications Closed
2026
DEADLINE TO APPLY:
February 20
April-September, 1 in-person session per month
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
New Play Directing Intensive
WTP offers this long term Intensive course annually as part of our advanced training in New Play Dramaturgy. Directing takes an entirely new form in the new play development space. A director moves from a visionary with the final say to a dramaturg with a producing eye who is there to support the vision of the playwright. In addition, working with a limited amount of technical resources means being creative in telling the story to an audience that is clear, theatrically dynamic AND entertaining.
This intensive will best serve all new play artists who seek to learn more about giving constructive, non-judgmental feedback and leading a collaborative space effectively and with care. We encourage playwrights, directors, producers, new play dramaturgs, moderators and leaders who seek to develop their skills and methodologies in directing new plays to apply.
Some of our Intensive guest artists: Lydia Fort, Kayla Ibarra, Ann Garcia-Romero, Erin O’Conner and more.
We invite the current and future leaders of the American Theatre to apply.
If you are interested in learning more about this intensive please email managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com or join our mailing list.
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