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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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The Voiceover with Sharon Washington
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
Recording voiceover work both in-studio and from your own home is one of those unique side-hustles that is lucrative, flexible, and even artistically fulfilling! In this 2-day workshop, veteran actor Sharon Washington will share the technical and acting-based skills necessary to successfully record voiceover for commercial and audiobook work, and have you apply these techniques to your own recording for in-class feedback and guidance. This...
Producing Your Own Work
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
This class is designed to guide each artist – actor, dancer, director, writer – through the process of becoming a successful producer, empowering all artists to develop and produce their own work. What if Christopher Guest had a great idea and did a few sketches with actor friends, but never felt motivated (or bad ass) enough to make Spinal Tap? Or what if Richard Linklater didn’t effectively rally his troops to commit 12 years to Boyhood?...
$140
Primary Previews with Tessa LaNeve
Primary Stages ESPA @ 53 E 79th St, New York, NY
Get an advance look at the 2016/17 Season of exciting new plays at Primary Stages! Each night of this 3-session seminar is dedicated to reading and discussing one of our upcoming plays with Tessa LaNeve, Director of ESPA and New Arts Programming at Primary Stages. Deconstruct the texts, conjure your dream casts, discuss design and production elements, and place these plays within the larger NYC landscape of American theater. This class is open to...
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Workshop: Seeing Between the Lines
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
The dramaturg's job is to read between the lines and enhance a script with specificity and accuracy. This 1-night workshop will teach you to watch and read a play from the perspective of a dramaturg and see what you've been missing. For our upcoming Virtual Reading of Charles Busch's The Tribute Artist, you will read the script in advance of class and then delve into the text with Primary Stages Associate Artistic Director Erin Daley - giving you...
$40
Playwriting: Short Forms
A quick glance through any play submission call board proves it: short plays are in high demand. Developing a strong portfolio of short plays is one of the fastest ways to become a produced playwright. Short plays require an ability to convey character, effective dialogue, and action without extensive exposition, and in this 10-week class, you’ll learn how not to waste a single word. From this class, you’ll take away the skills to craft surprising...
Lyric Writing
Lyrics are the foundation of musical theater storytelling and, for many playwrights, the final frontier. This 8-week class will teach you to apply your existing storytelling impulses to a lyric format. This class might be for you if you are: An early-career lyricist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking to delve into the world of musicals. A musical theater artist who wants to...
Screenwriting Structure
Describing his process, Woody Allen has said, “The idea emerges and once it gets to the writing stage, all the work’s been done. It’s really all the pre-work that’s the real heavy work.” This 10-week class will focus on all the “pre-work” that goes into transforming the glimmer of an idea into a full length screenplay. You will first screen several contemporary films and analyze the basic principles of the traditional three-act...
Getting to the Rewrite
Completing a draft is a huge accomplishment, but shifting your point of view from writing to rewriting can be disorienting and murky. In this 2-day writing workshop with Melissa Ross, you will dig into the play, ask it new questions, and emerge with a clear vision for your rewrites. This class might be for you if you: Have a draft of a play that you are ready to begin the revision process on, but need to get organized before embarking on rewrites....
Showing Up and Making Choices
In this honest and refreshing discourse among actors and veteran casting director Jack Doulin, you’ll improve your auditioning through making confident choices—both in your audition and in your life as an artist. Over the course of ten weeks, you will work on monologues, sides, and cold readings, all handpicked for you by Jack and chosen from many unpublished plays by accomplished writers. Not only is the class a safe space to work on material...
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 start by establishing individualized writing goals to conquer over ten weeks. Whether you choose to embark on a rewrite of your entire play or focus on individual scenes, writing exercises and in-class discussion will inspire you to ask new questions of your play, look at it from various angles, and deconstruct it with...
Acting in Documentary Performance - Become Someone Else
Acting in Documentary Performance - Becoming Someone Else Documentary performance is a unique opportunity for an actor to develop and create characters from real people, using real text. As seen in the contemporary theatre canon in The Laramie Project, Anne Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror and Twilight, Los Angeles, last season's Coal Country, and this summer's Zoom performance of The Line at The Public--as well as in other types...
Online: The First Draft - Adaptation
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...
A Play in 4 Days with Julian Sheppard
Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY
Starting a new play is like embarking on an adventure, and even the most seasoned explorers depend on their tool kit. Set yourself on the path to success by asking and answering the questions necessary to harness these tools and begin a successful first draft. Over four days, you will study character, dialogue, and structure, and then launch a new play. Day 1: Meet and develop your central characters. Day 2: Explore...
$420
Creative Lab: Immersive Theater Directing
Led by Jennine Willett, Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects and co-creator of the immersive theater production Then She Fell, this 5-week, hands-on directing lab is designed to create work that engages the audience and blurs the fourth wall. This is an opportunity for directors who want to explore these new, popular forms while working on their feet in a collaborative environment. Over the first four sessions, you will...
Site-Specific Directing
This 8-week, hands-on directing lab will teach you how to slough off the constraints of working in traditional spaces and give you the tools you need to make engaging, moving works of theater anywhere. Led by the team from Three Day Hangover (who are the co-creators of off-Broadway's Drunk Shakespeare and have staged immersive productions all over the city, from Tartuffe! at West Park Church to Drunkle Vanya's 6-month run at Tolstoy's Lounge),...
Circuit Training for Writers - Getting It Written
Work it out…this is the pentathlon for writers. In each session of this 5-week class, a different award-winning playwright will throw writing exercises at you to make those creative muscles burn. Whether you need to combat writer’s block, work through a problematic scene, or just raise your writing to the next level, each instructor will challenge you to push even harder. You’ll leave this class with an arsenal of tried-and-true writing exercises...
Circuit Training for Writers - Getting It Ready
Putting yourself out there as a professional playwright takes more than just getting the words down on the page, but for many playwrights, the “business” end is the final, most terrifying frontier. This brand new Circuit Training class is designed to help you face, and—gasp! even enjoy—the process of developing the strong relationships required to take your play from the page to the stage. Led by an all-star team of power players, self-pitching...
The Director’s Perspective
This 6-week workshop is for directors seeking to refine their analytical skills to translate what they see on stage to their own work. Along with Lisa Rothe (SDC Award-nominated Director, Hold These Truths with Epic Theatre Ensemble) and your fellow directors, you will see one Broadway and five Off-Broadway shows, each through a specific directorial lens. You will pay specific focus on incorporating visual design elements, aural design elements,...
Auditioning for Theater in an Online Platform
Auditioning for Theater in an Online Platform Due to the current limitations on in-person gatherings, auditioning for theater has pivoted in recent months, with auditions now being either self-taped or live via a virtual platform. Guided by casting director David Caparelliotis, you'll have an honest discussion about what auditioning in this current world means and explore techniques to create the best audition possible. This class might be for...
Write Your Own Hamlet (Online)
Write a full-length play using William Shakeaspere's Hamlet as a blueprint in this 8-week class! You can set your version of Hamlet in Nazi Germany, during the Black Plague, or even on Mars in this fun and interactive class. This class might be for you if you are: A playwright looking to delve into the craft of adaptation. An artist of any type who loves Shakespeare and wants to explore retelling his work. Curious about Shakespeare and want...
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