Jessica Huang is a playwright and librettist whose award-winning work includes: Ten Things I Hate About You: The Musical (with Lena Dunham, score by Carly Rae Jepsen and Ethan Gruska), Mother of Exiles (upcoming Berkeley Rep World Premiere, Venturous Award, NNPN Annual Showcase, Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, Kendeda Prize Finalist), The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (History Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Season, Barry and Bernice Stavis Award, Kilroy's List), Blended 和 (Harmony): The Kim Loo Sisters (History Theatre, Theater Mu, with music by Jacinth Greywoode), and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying (2022 EMOS Ecodrama prize). Her popular audioplay Song of the Northwoods is now available on Audible. She has commissions with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club and TimeLine Theatre, and is developing an original television show with WBTV. She is the Indiana Repertory Theatre James Still Playwright in Residence, a Venturous Playwright Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, and was the inaugural 4 Seasons Resident Playwright. She has received awards from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the National Theatre Conference, the Jerome Foundation, The Dramatists Guild, and The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation. She has developed work at Hedgebrook, The Hermitage, The MacDowell Colony, New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Space on Ryder Farm, among many others. She is a four-time Playwrights' Center fellow, and has been a member of Ars Nova Play Group, Civilians R&D Group, and Page 73's Interstate 73. She is a graduate of the Playwrights Program at Juilliard. More: www.jessica-huang.com
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY, OUR ACCREDITING INSTITUTION:
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This program requires an application process. Registration (Sign me up!) for the class shows us your interest ($25 enrollment fee) and we will reach out after your registration with a short and simple application process. Payment will be due after your application has been accepted. $1200 (no credit); $1840 (4 hrs undergrad credit); $2285 (3 hrs graduate credit) All applications are due by MAY 30 |
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class introduces you to the process and business of ideating, developing, and pitching a television show
The entertainment business is built on personal connections. Students should be prepared to participate in conversations and collaboration with their cameras on each session. Each class will involve discussions, writing exercises, and opportunities for Q+As. The course will help students develop a viable idea for a television show, and will culminate in a 20-30 min pitch presentation of their idea for their classmates.
This intensive is for you if you:
- Are you interested in television writing
- Are prepared to engage in collegiate-level work and assignments
- You are looking for college credit during the summer
Course Objectives & Outcomes:
- To study prestige series to learn about the characters, plot, structure, and strong visuals that inhabit them in an attempt to inform the creation of one’s original work
- To understand the concept of TV show creation, including the creation of a treatment and pitch deck that lays out the world-building, character development, and overall tone and mood of the series by working in a writers’ room setting
- To create a supportive and challenging writing community where everyone learns to give and receive constructive, respectful feedback and develop tools of collaboration
Class Dates:
Saturdays, June 07 through August 23
- Sat, Jun 7, 2025
- Sat, Jun 14, 2025
- Sat, Jun 21, 2025
- Sat, Jun 28, 2025
- Sat, Jul 5, 2025
- Sat, Jul 12, 2025
- Sat, Jul 19, 2025
- Sat, Jul 26, 2025
- Sat, Aug 2, 2025
- Sat, Aug 9, 2025
- Sat, Aug 16, 2025
- Sat, Aug 23, 2025
Cost:
- $2285 graduate credit (3 cr.), includes transcript from Augsburg University
- $1840 undergraduate credit (4 cr.), includes transcript from Augsburg University
- $1200 (Non-credit)
Jessica Huang
