Do you have an early draft play you don't know what to do with? This class is designed to help playwrights listen to what they've already created and find a vision for moving forward through careful attention to structure, character, theme and style. Through group discussion, reading and re-writing, this class will help you find the play your first draft wants to be. Anyone who has an early draft full-length play to work on may enroll.

The class will meet every Monday, August 22 through October 3, except Labor Day, 8-10 CT.

The only materials needed are an original full-length play and a willingness to read suggested titles from the instructor (to be determined on an individual basis).

Participants will join via webcam through their computers or laptops and will need a strong internet connection and headset or earbuds with microphone (to minimize background noise). There will be a short training session to check everyone's equipment, but it is strongly encouraged that participants be prepared to join in this live and virtual way. 

Catherine Trieschmann's

plays include CROOKED, HOW THE WORLD BEGAN, HOT GEORGIA SUNDAY, THE MOST DESERVING, HOLY LAUGHTER, ONE HOUSE OVER and OZ 2.5. They have been produced Off-Broadway at the Women’s Project Theater, in London at the Bush Theater and with Out-of-Joint at the Arcola Theatre, South Coast Repertory, the Denver Theater Center for Performing Arts, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Penguin Repertory Theater, Florida Stage, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, among others. She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theater Club, Denver Center for Performing Arts and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She’s the recipient of the Weissberger Award, the Edgerton New Play prize and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award from the Willian Inge Playwriting Festival. Her plays are published by Samuel French in the U.S. and Methuen in the U.K. Originally from Athens, GA, she currently lives in a small town in Western Kansas. You can read her popular column on “Parenting and Playwriting” at www.howlround.com/parenting-and-playwriting.