Advanced Writing for Stage and Screen

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'Advanced Writing for Stage and Screen' will look at the strengths of three dramatic art-forms - playwriting, screen and TV writing - and the particular challenge they share: the concept of 'dramatic action' which provides the 'motor' for a dramatic work. Initial writing exercises will explore these dramatic-writing forms, in conjunction with the study of representative plays, films and TV series. Final projects - a play, screenplay or TV pilot - will be discussed and critiqued in class as they progress, prior to a final rewrite. Prerequisite for this course is one previous dramatic writing course - either playwriting or screenwriting.

Skills

• writingdescription: "writing" and 7 more

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 16 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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