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Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) is a multidisciplinary school that offers training to playwrights, actors, and directors from all over the world. With a focus on nurturing emerging artists and providing them with developmental opportunities, ESPA has become a trailblazer in performing arts education and collaboration within the Primary Stages and greater New York theater community.
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Online Class: Comedy Writing
A solid grasp of the mechanics of comedy writing for the stage is a powerful tool in the hand of any playwright. While comedy is a main element of an over-the-top farce or a burning satire, it is just as essential to delicately lace comic elements into the most serious drama. This class might be for you if you are: A playwright in any stage of your career interested in the comedic form. Looking to infuse your playwriting of any genre with smart,...
Libretto Writing (Online)
A musical is only as good as its libretto, the piece that marries the plot and character development with musical composition. In this 8-week class, you'll focus on this main structural component of musical theater, developing the tools and framework of a musical theater piece. This class might be for you if you: An early-career librettist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking...
Kinetic Energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes. This workshop will toss you headlong into your play. Come with the very seed of an idea or something you have only written one or two...
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Big D Energy - The Dramaturgy of Playwriting
This is a dramaturgically-inspired playwriting class. While forging ahead on your own works can be very fulfilling, sometimes the best way to forward your writing is through studying the work of others. Over the course of 8 weeks, Winter will guide you through play analyses and writing exercises, looking at great works from the outside in to strengthen your own writing. This class might be for you if you: A writer who wants to employ the principles...
Online Class: Tools of Dialogue
For the playwright, dialogue is one of the key ways to fully express character, relationships, and the world of the play. Through a series of dialogue exercises led by playwright Matthew Paul Olmos, you'll hone your skills of dialogue writing in order to engage your audiences in a more meaningful way. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright of any level looking to deepen your work and enhance your dialogue skills. Want to stay committed...
Online Class: Dramatic Structure
What is it you want to say with that play? What perspective do you bring to the piece to make it uniquely yours? And, most importantly, why are you working on it in the first place? This 5-week seminar forces you to examine all of these questions in order to approach every play and production with the goal of telling this story right now and for this reason. With Tessa LaNeve, Director of ESPA and dramaturg of Bright...
Online Class: Solo Performance
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
Admissions Qualifications: Successful candidates must participate in and pass an audition before registering for this program. Please schedule your audition at the "Request Info" submission above. All registrations are subject to approval by The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. Like Anna Deavere Smith, Nilaja Sun, John Leguizamo, Sharon Washington, Sarah Jones, Daniel Beaty, and other brave solo performers who have come before you,...
10-Minute Plays and One Acts
Developing a strong portfolio of short plays is one of the fastest ways to become a produced or published playwright. In this 8-week class, you’ll learn how to distill a compelling story into the shortest possible dramatic form, think outside of the box of structure, and have some fun. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright of any level who wants to explore the unique storytelling principles of the short form. Want to present your...
The First Draft
Whether you're writing your first play or your hundredth, it's not always easy to set the creative wheels in motion. This 10-week class will guide you through the development of your first draft. Open to new and returning students located anywhere in the world, this class will be run just like a real-life writing room, interacting with your instructor and classmates live via Zoom. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright...
Online Class: Rewriting Your Draft
As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. This 10-week class will help you tackle the revision process and develop a stronger version of your play. Open to new and returning students located anywhere in the world, this class will be run just like a real-life writing room, interacting with your instructor and classmates live via Zoom. This class might be for you if you: Have a fully completed draft of a full-length...
The Rewrite
As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. Open to new and returning students, this class will begin by establishing individualized writing goals to conquer over eight weeks. Whether you choose to embark on a rewrite of your entire play or focus on individual scenes, writing exercises and online lectures will inspire you to ask new questions of your play, look at it from various angles, and deconstruct it with...
The First Draft
Whether you're writing your first play or your hundredth, it's not always easy to set the creative wheels in motion. This 10-week class will guide you through the development of your first draft. Open to new and returning students located anywhere in the world, this class will be run just like a real-life writing room, interacting with your instructor and classmates live via Zoom. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright of...
The Callback
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
"They like you, they really like you!" This 6-week class with Casting Director Lisa Donadio will focus on callbacks; the questions and tactics discussed will be helpful in any audition situation as well as in the rehearsal room. This class might be for you if you: Find yourself being called back more often, and want to make a great second impression. Want to take the next step in your auditions, especially in this new and evolving audition...
On-Camera Auditioning: The Self - Tape (Online)
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
Now more than ever, self-tapes are the norm when auditioning for projects. This class with Anthony Arkin and Amelia Campbell is an intimate and intensive dive into the preparation and experience of the self-taped audition. This class might be for you if: Are an actor pursuing or wanting to pursue professional work in film and television. Want to improve and excel in crafting your self-tapes for our current world. Have taken Being On-Camera and you...
Advanced Lyric Writing
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
By invitation or application only. Armed with the foundational lyric writing principles—including song structure, scansion, rhyme, and classical musical theater song forms—you will expand your lyric writing skills through doing and apply this knowledge to your own projects. This class might be for you if you: Have taken Lyric Writing 1 and are looking to continue your learning! In this class you will: Develop and present work in a...
Online Class: Directing the Actor
Regardless of content—virtual or in-person, classical or contemporary—the one constant in directing is the need to effectively and generously communicate with your actors to get the best performance possible and fully actualize your vision. This 8-week class is for directors of all levels to actively and collaboratively refine your approach to text, explore the rehearsal process, and create with your actors no matter the medium. This class might...
Short Form Screenwriting
Screenwriting is a specialized craft with its own set of dramatic writing principles. Film allows writers to tell stories in an infinite range of styles, from special effects-charged blockbusters to the intimate indie projects. In this 6-week class with screenwriter and playwright Melisa Annis, you will apply the concepts of character development, visual storytelling, theme, plot, and dialogue to your own original short film script. This class...
Online: Fast First Draft
This class is set up for you to swiftly and decisively embark on a first draft of a new play. In the first session of this 5-week class, you will work on generative writing exercises designed to kickstart your creativity, and in each subsequent session you'll workshop new pages. Propelled forward by page-generating exercises and unencumbered by extensive critique, you will start to develop a new play—either a one-act or a full-length—and have...
Screenwriting
Screenwriting is a specialized craft with its own set of dramatic writing principles. In this 7-week class with screenwriter and playwright Daniel Talbott, you will learn the ways that film allows writers to tell stories in an infinite range of styles, from special effects-charged blockbusters to the intimate indie projects. This class might be for you if you: Are a playwright who wants the tools to transition from stage to screen. Need a stronger...
Television Writing
Writing for television has the potential to be not only artistically satisfying, but lucrative as well—just ask Aaron Sorkin from "The Newsroom," Zakiyyah Alexander from "Grey's Anatomy,"or Joshua Allen from "Empire.". This class is your opportunity to learn the structure and language of television writing so you can work to join the ranks of these distinguished playwrights-turned-television writers. This class might be for you if you: Are a...
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