
Adult Playwriting Workshop
With Abigail Drach
August 2&3, 2025
10am-4:30pm (with a 30 min break)
Is there anything more mysterious than a play? How does an idea in someone's head become words on a page and then transform into life embodied on a stage that moves its audience to cry and to laugh and to rage and to think? In this weekend workshop, we will explore just that. Everyone is welcome—whether you are a novice or experienced, whether you have an idea you've been dying to explore or you don't know where to start. We will cover the basics of formatting, setting the stage, narrative structure, characterization, and dialogue by drawing on examples from the canon such as: Lorraine Hansberry, Thorton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tony Kushner. Participants will also have ample time to develop, write, and workshop a scene from anywhere in their play. Everyone will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the workshop leader and from the other participants. By the end of the weekend, each participant will have a fleshed-out concept for a play and several pages of a draft to continue writing if they so desire and a strong sense of how to develop ideas into a script in the future.
Abigail Drach is a NYC-based writer, scholar, and lifelong theater-lover. She has worked as an actor, theater educator, and high school English teacher in addition to organizing an international conference for women playwrights and writing/staging several plays of her own. She earned her BA in Theater and Gender studies from McGill University, her MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and she is starting her PhD in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University in the fall. You can find her work in the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Journal (Winter 2022), The Mixtape Project (February 2025), and Doubly Mad Journal (April 2025).
Sliding Scale Pricing $100/$150/$200
Financial Support is available!
Improv Classes for Teens with Jane Baker
What is improv? Is it throwing people onstage and seeing what happens? Nah, although that might be fun. Improv has rules and goals and the biggest is to make eachother look good while we tell a good story. Improv is fun and games and silliness. Come play and I promise you'll learn a playful and creative tool for not only the theater,but your every day life! Dress in clothes you can move in and bring a snack. We'll take a 10 minute break midway through each class.
Can't wait to teach and learn together.
Jane Baker
Sliding Scale Tuition starting at $270
Financial aid is available!
Senior Company: Ages 14-19
September 8th-October 13th
Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm
Adult Improv - Tuesdays
With Jane Baker
Tuesday evenings 6:30-8pm
Two Sessions
Sept 9th to Oct 14th and Oct 28th to Dec 2nd
Adults! Tired of adulting? Me too.
What happened to having fun and playing? I’m have the answer. It’s IMPROV.
Not a performer? Doesn’t matter.
Not funny? Good, improv is not about “being funny.”
Want to be more comfortable and confident? Neato.
Come play and learn how Improv serves your everyday life and have a blast while you’re at it.
Sliding Scale Pricing
$275/$250 /$225