This course aims to offer an introduction to the craft and culture of playwriting as an art-form and space of social justice activation. Students will familiarize themselves with the structure of dramatic narratives through an interdisciplinary exploration of performance, design, and theatre for social change practices that center social justice in the generating of new work for the theatre. Coursework will include weekly writing assignments towards the completion of a new play draft, periodic assignments introducing the principles of collaboration essential to the theatre making process and the reading of playscripts. Class sessions will be centered on the workshopping of written text both for short-term and committed play idea assignments, the discussion and dissection of noteworthy contemporary plays, and an active engagement in current conversations that are shaping the future of the artform.
- Teacher: Alex Espinoza