Jeremy Kareken Teaches Playwriting At The Acting Studio

The Acting Studio - New York is proud to announce that its playwriting instructor, Jeremy Kareken, is co-author of the new groundbreaking Broadway play, The Lifespan of a Fact. The play features Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones, and Bobby Cannavale. The upcoming summer session of Mr. Kareken's playwriting workshop begins July 15; prospective students are encouraged to apply immediately.

Apply here: http://www.actingstudio.com/our-classes/playwrights/beginning-playwriting

"The Acting Studio - New York, one of the most excellent schools in New York City." from the book STAGECRAFT - by Robert Blumenfeld

"Playwriting is a very different craft from writing prose - when one writes for actors, you need to understand the methods actors use to bring a playwright's words to life," says Mr. Kareken. In description of his class playwright Kareken continues, "the student will learn the subtle techniques characters use to influence each other - and how to make situations exciting and filled with tension. Starting with the short dramatic or comic scene, we will expand towards writing a fuller work - either a one act or a full length. Students will also be given techniques of how to get over "page fright," the fear of getting started." Students are expected to write every week and bring at least three pages to each three hour class. The class explores the tools of theater, including but not limited to: character, theatricality, dialogue, setting, images, actions and obstacles. With each producing season a selection of these plays are cast with actors from Chelsea Repertory Company & LAB at the Studio and assigned a director, allowing each student playwright to go through the rehearsal process with their script in preparation for public readings and workshop productions at the Studio. Many plays are selected each year to be produced by Chelsea Rep LAB in their e-MERGING ARTISTS: One-act Play Festival every Fall.

The Acting Studio - New York is dedicated equally to the development of skills at the highest level through intensive short-term and long-term classes, and to the practical application of those skills in work presented in the studio's respected and regularly held "open-class" forums, and group projects presented under the auspices of the Chelsea Rep LAB, as well as on productions for public performance produced in conjunction with Chelsea Repertory Company. The success of many of its students in Film, Theatre and Television earns the studio a right to claim "developing award-winning talent."

Apply here: http://www.actingstudio.com/our-classes/playwrights/beginning-playwriting.