8-Week Classes
8-Week: Screenwriting Workshop
March 17, 2025 to May 5, 2025 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM MDT | Virtual
Chris Grillot
Want to learn how to turn your great idea into a screenplay? Or do you want to workshop a script and hone your craft? This is the course for you. Designed for screenwriters of all levels, this class will encompass screenplay format, structure, and workshop. After the basics, we'll focus on improving your script with live table reads, first-blush workshops, and notes from the instructor.
8-Week: Playwriting Workshop
March 22, 2025 to May 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM MDT | In-Person
Melissa Lucero McCarl
This all-levels course is designed to help you discover your dramatic voice and to lure out those wild and woolly characters clamoring to tell their story through you. We'll cover the ground rules of the stage (structure, character, plot, dialogue, motivation, subtext, silence, etc.) and see how the best plays and playwrights adhere to, and continually break, them.
4-Week Classes
4-Week: Writing the Truth—Identity on the Page
April 16, 2025 to May 7, 2025 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM MDT | Hybrid (In person or virtual)
Julissa Contreras
In this 4-week class, we’ll explore how to authentically represent identity—our own or our characters’—in inclusive ways. Through guided prompts, we’ll experiment with techniques for crafting authentic, multidimensional characters and narratives that reflect the complexities of identity. We’ll also discuss assigned readings from impactful works that serve as inspiration and frameworks for our storytelling.
4-Week: The Screen Junkie’s Guide to Better Writing—A Study of Modern Film and TV to Inspire Your Best Work
April 17, 2025 to May 8, 2025 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM MDT | In-Person
Melissa Lucero McCarl
No matter your genre, this class will arm you with best practices in writing by putting the work of modern dramatic writers under a microscope. We'll learn from writers such as Phoebe Waller Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve), Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom, The West Wing), Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), August Wilson (Fences), and many more. This class will be a mix of discussion and in-class writing prompts inspired by the screen excerpts of the day.
Two-Day Intensive
Weekend Screenwriting Intensive: The Rewrite
April 19, 2025 to April 20, 2025 | 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM MDT | In-Person
Jenny Taylor-Whitehorn
In this weekend intensive, we’ll look at practical ways of rewriting your draft. Bring a script (or part of a draft) that needs a rewrite and we’ll spend the weekend taking a hard look at the script’s bones, finding new ways into characters and scenes. Writers will also get experience incorporating and discussing notes with fellow writers in small targeted groups and figuring out how to best utilize our fellow writers.
