Dramatists Guild Institute Announces Spring Courses

The Dramatists Guild Institute is proud to announce the continuation of its second year of continuing education classes for writers. The Dramatists Guild, after years of discussion, designed a curriculum of classes that would combine their playwriting and musical theater writing seminars into a variety of extended educational classes - anything from a long weekend to something more rigorous that is six to ten weeks in duration. The classes, taught through the Dramatists Guild Institute, are offered to Guild and non-Guild members, with Guild members receiving a significant reduction in tuition. All classes are taught by prominent educators and master teachers.

"I left a great teaching job at one of the finest public arts-magnet schools in the country to study with the Dramatists Guild Institute for Dramatic Writing. I've been called reckless, crazy, and brave but in all honesty, the opportunity to study with such fiercely talented people in the inaugural class of the DGI made this major life-decision a pretty easy one," explained Ron Mediatore, Dramatists Guild member and DGI student.

Tina Howe, playwright (Art of Dining, Pride's Crossing and Singing Beach at HERE), Dramatists Guild Council member and DGI instructor, shared her experience teaching a master class: "This was such a stunning group of playwrights - they gobbled up my writers' prompts! I couldn't believe how imaginative, far reaching and moving their plays were. They responded with such brio, talent and glee, I was speechless."

The spring 2018 roster of online and in-person classes includes seventeen unique, specialized courses -- everything from a weekend-warrior Master Class in Playwriting (taught by Austin Pendleton), to a six-week Master Class in the Ten-Minute Play (taught by DGI Director Gary Garrison), to full ten-week semester classes that mix the more popular Institute classes (The Architecture of Plays, Part 2, taught by Garrison; The Architecture of Musicals, taught by John Dietrich; The Art of Rewriting, taught by Michele Lowe) with some exciting new classes including Lyric Writing, taught by Marcy Heisler; and master classes taught by Tina Howe and Janet Neipris. Intensive writing workshops, offered both online and in NYC, are taught by playwrights Chisa Hutchinson, Andrea Lepcio, and Matthew Paul Olmos.

For more detailed course descriptions, instructor bios, fee structures, and class schedules, please visit the Dramatists Guild Institute website at www.dginstitute.org.