WTP offers workshops and intensives to train artists in playwriting, directing and new play dramaturgy.
Featuring guest dramatugs and award-winning directors! We are here to push the boundaries of new theatre with 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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WORKSHOPS & SERIES
Read about Lydia Fort
Lydia Fort has directed at Cygnet Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Women’s Project Theatre, Women Center Stage, Urban Stages, McCarter Theatre YouthInk! Festival, New Federal Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, freeFall Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Planet Connections Festivity (where she was honored with the 2103 Best Director and Greener Planet Awards) as well as other festivals including the New Black Fest, 48 Hours in Harlem and the Fire This Time Festival. Lydia is the co-founder and artistic director of Akadēmeia Theatre Company; and has penned two performance pieces, Welcome to My Body and S/HE, which explore identity, culture, the body and illness. She was a member of the US delegation to the International Theatre Institute’s World Congress in China in 2011. Lydia was a Time Warner Foundation Fellow of the 2012-2014 Lab at Women’s Project Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop Directing Fellow, Drama League Fellow and a Theatre Communications Group (TCG) New Generations Future Leader grantee. Ms. Fort is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union, the League of Professional Theatre Women, the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association and the artEquity 2017 cohort. Ms. Fort holds a BA from New York University and received both a Certificate in Arts Management for the Performing Arts and an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington.
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.
Register for WTP/KitF Eco-Theatre Play-Making Workshop: Making Plays With The Living World with Lydia Fort and Amber Bradshaw
DATES:
October-January:
October 3rd – First session
October 24
Nov 7 & 21
December 5
January 9 & 23
from 1-4pm or 1-3pm
COST of Workshop:
$150 for WTP members
$225 for non-members
The Eco-Theatre Play-Making Workshop is a 4-month hybrid program (October to January) that brings together artists, and community members to create original short plays that explore environmental justice, sustainability, and ecological awareness through the lens of theatre. Blending in-person and virtual sessions with experiential outdoor activities, participants will engage in monthly workshops, forest bathing walks, guest speaker events (from local environmental organizations) and a writer’s lab.
The program will culminate in a public reading of participant-created eco-plays presented in partnership with a local theatre company.
What you’ll get from this workshop:
By the end of this course students will:
– Be empowered with tools and knowledge to integrate ecological awareness into their creative practice.
– Deepen awareness of environmental justive issues specific to the Georgia Bioregion.
– Foster personal engagement through partnerships with local Eco Organizations.
– Support creative activism and “slow activism” through embodied practices like forest bathing, collaborating in nature and sustainable living.
– Generate new eco-theatrical works that reflect diverse voices and regional environmental concerns.
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.
2027
DEADLINE TO APPLY:
February 20
March-September, 2 sessions per month (1 virtual, 1 in-person)
2026 Applications Closed
2027
DEADLINE TO APPLY:
February 20
April-September, 1 in-person session per month
2026 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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