Workshop Description: Do you have a play you’ve been thinking about but don’t know where to begin? Writer’s block left you feeling stranded? This workshop will teach you the foundational skills of listening and playing to help you develop momentum in your writing process and generate plays more courageously. No experience required!
Target Audience:Beginner and intermediate playwrights seeking to add tools to their creativity toolkit. Suggested age 16+
Learning Objectives: Participants will expand their creative listening skills, learning to say “yes, and…” to creative impulses, combat writer’s block, and apply new techniques to plot, character, and dialogue development.
Workshop Length: 3 hours
Location: Zoom - Recording Available for up to 3 months after listed workshop date.
Registration Required. Zoom information sent the day before workshop.
About the facilitator:
Taylor Sklenar is a playwright and science communication Lecturer at Iowa State University. He spent two years pursuing his MA in Theatre in Columbia, Missouri, where he served as the managing director of the Missouri Playwrights’ Workshop and the Mizzou New Play Series. More recently, he has earned his MFA in Creative Writing and Environment and MS in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, where he served as poetry and drama editor for Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment, a core member of The EcoTheatre Lab, and the founder of Ames-based theatre collective, Focal Theatre Lab, which explores new and experimental work by local playwrights. His writing explores the intersection of science, sustainability, and rural life. taylorsklenar.com / ecotheatrelab.com