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Knoxville Writers' Guild: The Play’s the Thing: Writing Ten-Minute Plays

Category: Classes, workshops and Literature, spoken word, writing

Good news: it can be anything you want it to be! It just has to be something. This four-week digital workshop is committed to turning your idea into an actual play script. We’ll clamp down on what we like about basic structures for a ten-minute play, and then we’ll get into the fun stuff:

• How words absolutely matter, and also how they don’t matter at all
• How your play looks with no budget, and also with an infinite budget
• How to refine your best ideas, and also how to write without a clue

There will be more covered, too, as well as opportunities to read and discuss scripts in class.
It’s gonna be a good time. Let’s do this thing.

Harrison Young (he/him) is the Tennessee Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild of America and the Literary Manager for the Tennessee Stage Company. As a Theatre graduate from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Improvisation alum from the Peoples Improv Theater-NYC, he has performed in many comedies and new works which taught him how to write his own comedies. He recently began Next Rung Productions, a program in which he mentors a local playwright each year as they create a new play from scratch.

$95 for members, $105 for nonmembers by July 23; $120 for members, $130 for nonmembers by midnight August 4.

Fridays August 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th 5:30-8:30 PM Eastern
Register today! https://knoxvillewritersguild.org/events/august21workshop/