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
TO SIGN UP FOR CLASSES
Contact Amber Bradshaw at managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com
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DROP IN CLASSES
DATES:
February 28, 12-3pm
March 1, 12-3pm
Move, Laugh, Write: a workshop on letting go with comedian and playwright Mark Kendall and movement artist Mallory Hazan
This special two day course will integrate exploratory movement, performance collaboration, and understanding comedic structure. Join Mallory Hazen (yoga teacher, wellness coach, and lifetime dancer) and Mark Kendall (comedian, playwright, and filmmaker) as they lead you in strategically selected exercises that connect physicality, teamwork, spontaneity, and of course, laughter. Mark and Mallory will seamlessly weave movement, improv, and comedic writing to enhance your performance, character development and comfort in your own skin.
You can expect movement exercises that challenge you to play with timing and levels, focusing in on certain body parts and motivations for movement. Then we will explore how our explorations can help us generate written material- you’ll learn strategies for building comedic characters, premises, and punchlines from the physicality. You’ll work solo, in teams and as a group to identify patterns that infuse more depth and humor into your writing. You can expect to come away from this course more confident in your body and your comedic point of view. All experience levels are welcome, no experience required! Please bring water and wear comfortable clothing you can move in.
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)
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2026
DEADLINE TO APPLY:
February 20
April-September, 1 in-person session per month
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
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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