Do you ever encounter TV or movies or plays or fiction and think, “These characters don’t talk like real people! I know I can do better than that!”
Do you ever look at dialogue in your own work and think, “These characters don’t talk like real people! I know I can do better than that!” If you do, this class is for you. Over the course of four weeks, you will be guided through an investigation of how real people talk, how great playwrights write great dialogue, and how you yourself could strengthen your own dialogue-writing muscle. Led by experienced dramatic writer and seasoned writing teacher Aaron Ricciardi, you will read plays and write your own scenes and/or fiction every week as you strive to write believable dialogue. This class is designed with playwrights and fiction writers in mind, though it’s right for anyone who wants to understand how to make the banal scintillating.
Class with be held online on Tuesdays November 19, December 3, 10, and 17.
Enrollment is limited to 15 students.
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Aaron writes plays and musicals about people who are unable to communicate with each other successfully or healthily, and he often covers perception, delusion, cult behavior, abuse, and triangular relationships. His work is political but accessible and funny, and it often experiments with form. His plays and musicals include The Star Killers, Only Child, A Bushel and a Peck, Nice Nails, The Travels, and Hanukkah Harriet, which is published and licensed by Stage Partners. His work has been produced and developed by Clubbed Thumb, the Play ...
Aaron writes plays and musicals about people who are unable to communicate with each other successfully or healthily, and he often covers perception, delusion, cult behavior, abuse, and triangular relationships. His work is political but accessible and funny, and it often experiments with form. His plays and musicals include The Star Killers, Only Child, A Bushel and a Peck, Nice Nails, The Travels, and Hanukkah Harriet, which is published and licensed by Stage Partners. His work has been produced and developed by Clubbed Thumb, the Playwrights’ Center, the New York Musical Festival, Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, Stages Bloomington, and the BMI Workshop. Awards and residencies include Clubbed Thumb Early-Career Writers’ Group, Playwrights’ Center Core Apprenticeship, BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Roundabout Space Jam, and the Clubbed Thumb Constitution Commission. Aaron graduated from the Theatre program at Northwestern University, where he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt, and he received his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University, where he studied under Peter Gil-Sheridan. Aaron is on faculty at SUNY New Paltz in their Creative Writing Program. www.aaronricciardi.com
Writing Believable Dialogue with Aaron Ricciardi
Short Humor & Satire Writing/Tragedy Plus Time
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