Advanced Playwriting

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You are well into the writing process of your play but are having difficulties. Receive advanced tips from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video series.

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Advanced Playwriting: Clean Up Dialogue
Be concise with your dialogue when you are in the editing process. Learn how to clean up dialogue from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Entrances & Exits
Don’t forget the important role of entrances and exits. Learn how to write entrances and exits from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Monologues
Monologues can be used to really focus the beliefs or emotions of a particular character. Learn how to write monologues from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Perfect Dialogue
The substance and style of a character’s dialogue may be distinct depending on the setting, other characters in the scene, emotion or character development. Learn how to perfect dialogue from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Performing Styles & Venues
Knowing who your actors are going to be will help you in editing your play. Is it a community theater? Is it going to be performed by professionals? Learn about performing styles and venues from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Props & Activities
Props and activities give context for the interactions of the characters in the play. Learn the importance of props and activities from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Setting
You might face some challenges when creating your setting due to limitations in the space you have or budget. Learn how to write setting from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Sharing Ideas
It’s better to wait until your play is finished before sharing it with others. Get tips on sharing your ideas and work from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Stay on Track
Go to a play in a similar genre to the one you’re writing. Observe the audience. Learn how to stay on track in the editing process from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Advanced Playwriting: Things to Avoid
Be careful of clichéd lines. Avoid phone conversations, especially in the opening. Don’t mix styles. Learn things to avoid from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Games for a Writers' Salon
Games at a writers’ salon can encourage creativity and cooperation. Learn how to organize games for your writers' salon from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Goals of a Writers' Salon
What are you and the other participants trying to accomplish at the writers' salon? Learn how to make goals for your writers' salon from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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How to Organize a Writers' Salon
Decide who you want to participate in your writers' salon. Only writers? A mix of writers, actors and audience? Learn how to organize a writers' salon from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Playwriting as a Career
Professional playwriting is similar to owning your own business. Learn about playwriting as a career from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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The Ultimate Playwright's Exercise
Use this ultimate writer’s exercise at your writers’ salon or other gathering. Learn the ultimate writer's exercise from a professional playwright in this free arts and entertainment video.

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Summary: You are an aspiring Shakespeare. Or maybe David Mamet is more your speed. Is it possible that you fancy yourself a great innovator who will go where no playwright has gone before? Whatever your experience and aspirations you could probably use some pointers from someone who makes a living writing plays.

In this free arts and entertainment video series, you will receive advanced playwriting tips from a professional playwright. You have been writing diligently. You have much of your play down on paper. Now, get help staying on track. Learn how to write entrances and exits. Here are pointers for cleaning up and perfecting your dialogue and monologues. Find out how to deal with the challenges of setting. Have you considered organizing a writers' salon? Are you thinking about a career writing plays? All this and more waits for you in this free video series.

About the Expert

Contact: MyStagePlay.com

Expert: Kirk Bowman is a Los Angeles-based playwright. He majored in both Theater and Cinema at USC. Bowman has written 200 scenes for actors, plus full length plays for theater companies, including the Burbank Little Theater. His writing style ranges from comedy, “Love, Lasagna & Nuclear War,” to touching drama, “Dreams on a Desert Night.”“Bittersweet Lies” is an award-winning, feature-length, teen drama Bowman wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed a campy B-Movie horror, “Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank,” which is in the major U.S. retail outlets.Bowman is a playwright consultant and teaches an Acting Workshop. www.MyStagePlay.com