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Taught by Eliya Smith
May 9, 16, 23, 30, & June 6* (Saturdays)
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
13 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Playwright Eliya Smith leads a 5-week workshop for playwrights of all levels focused on exploring and developing existential weariness in dramatic writing, as inspired by Chekhov.
In this course, students will complete and share in-class writing exercises and weekly take-home assignments modeled from the work of Anton Chekhov and his artistic successors. We’ll discuss and implement strategies for crafting dynamic and dramatically fraught atmospheres in our writing. We’ll also examine theatrical elements essential to generating mood onstage: developing strong characters, creating suspense using structure and form, writing thrilling dialogue, etc. In addition to Chekhov, the syllabus will include full texts and selections from such writers as Annie Baker, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Hunter, Sarah Kane, María Irene Fornés, Tennessee Williams, Eboni Booth, Samuel Beckett, and other great architects of atmosphere and emotion in the Chekhovian tradition.
*Class on June 6th will be held at a different location (TBD) due to a scheduling conflict at the Center.
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Eliya is a playwright from Ohio. Off-Broadway: Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company, Keene Prize Finalist, Venturous Grant). Other plays: Deadclass, Ohio (with the Goat Exchange; Reboot Studios Grant, Tank Core Season, Ice Factory Festival), TWO GIRLS: A Homeric Retelling in the Oral Tradition (Ars Nova), Memonica (HERE Arts Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant), Then We’ll Rest (ISLE Theater Company, Cohen New Works Festival), Dad Don’t Read This (Phyllis Anderson Prize). Additional Support: American Repertory Theater, Working Barn Incubator Program. Proud member EST Youngblood. Playwright-in-Residence at The Goat Exchange. BA Harvard College, MFA UT Austin.
Taught by Eliya Smith
May 9, 16, 23, 30, & June 6* (Saturdays)
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
13 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Playwright Eliya Smith leads a 5-week workshop for playwrights of all levels focused on exploring and developing existential weariness in dramatic writing, as inspired by Chekhov.
In this course, students will complete and share in-class writing exercises and weekly take-home assignments modeled from the work of Anton Chekhov and his artistic successors. We’ll discuss and implement strategies for crafting dynamic and dramatically fraught atmospheres in our writing. We’ll also examine theatrical elements essential to generating mood onstage: developing strong characters, creating suspense using structure and form, writing thrilling dialogue, etc. In addition to Chekhov, the syllabus will include full texts and selections from such writers as Annie Baker, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Hunter, Sarah Kane, María Irene Fornés, Tennessee Williams, Eboni Booth, Samuel Beckett, and other great architects of atmosphere and emotion in the Chekhovian tradition.
*Class on June 6th will be held at a different location (TBD) due to a scheduling conflict at the Center.
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Eliya is a playwright from Ohio. Off-Broadway: Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company, Keene Prize Finalist, Venturous Grant). Other plays: Deadclass, Ohio (with the Goat Exchange; Reboot Studios Grant, Tank Core Season, Ice Factory Festival), TWO GIRLS: A Homeric Retelling in the Oral Tradition (Ars Nova), Memonica (HERE Arts Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant), Then We’ll Rest (ISLE Theater Company, Cohen New Works Festival), Dad Don’t Read This (Phyllis Anderson Prize). Additional Support: American Repertory Theater, Working Barn Incubator Program. Proud member EST Youngblood. Playwright-in-Residence at The Goat Exchange. BA Harvard College, MFA UT Austin.