Our new addition to the curriculum is designed to help you develop your theatre and art with the use of new technology and media. Streaming, podcasting, and self-recording have not only become necessary to create theatre in quarantine, but they have become staples of the modern artist. Help theatre enter a new stage in its evolution at Chicago Dramatists.
Conversations About Playwriting
1 Saturday
10:00am – 1:00pm CT
Feb 10
Instructor: Martyna Majok
Ask me anything! This class is a hybrid Q&A-conversation. Please come prepared with 1-2 questions about anything playwriting related that may be most on your mind — whether that’s about craft, career, business, writing block. The purpose of this class is to commune with the concerns of your and your colleagues and share resources and life hacks amongst each other.
Class Description
Ask me anything! This class is a hybrid Q&A-conversation. Please come prepared with 1-2 questions about anything playwriting related that may be most on your mind — whether that’s about craft, career, business, writing block. The purpose of this class is to commune with the concerns of your and your colleagues and share resources and life hacks amongst each other.
Though writing may be solitary, community is essential. Since we are often the only playwright in any rehearsal rooms, and as the pandemic has harmed many of our collective spaces, this class is an opportunity to question and share and, hopefully, to connect and inspire.
Teacher Bio
Martyna Majok was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Other awards include The Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award, The Obie Award for Playwriting, The Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Exceptional Playwriting, Hull-Warriner Award, The Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, Lanford Wilson Prize, Lilly Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Helen Merrill Prize, Helen Hayes Award, Jean Kennedy Smith, two Jane Chambers Awards, The Hermitage/Greenfield Prize, Francesca Primus Prize, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship. Gatsby, a new musical for which Martyna wrote the libretto with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, will premiere this spring at A.R.T. Martyna has developed TV projects for HBO and is writing feature films for Plan B/Pastel/MGM/Orion, MRC/T-Street and Participant.
Course Details
| Session Dates | Saturday, Feb 10 Live at Chicago Dramatists |
| Experience Level | Network Playwrights Only |
| Applicable Discounts | N/A |
Chicago Dramatists Class Fee Policies
- If you cancel your registration more than ten days in advance of the class start date, you will be entitled to either a full refund of your money or a full credit applied to your account for future CD classes.
- If you cancel your registration fewer than ten days but more than three days before the class start date, you will be entitled to 50% of your class fee (minus a $20 administrative fee) applied to your account as a credit.
- If you cancel your registration less than three days before the class start date, there is unfortunately neither a credit nor refund option available.
- Classes that fail to meet the 50% minimum registrant requirement within 48 hours of class start time will be cancelled. In this case, registrants will receive a 100% refund.