COLLABORATION I

The course will focus on how we make/develop new plays with the evolving text at the center of the process.

The course will come at this from different angles and take a close look at the roles of different people/disciplines in the room, giving attention to each. Michael, I haven’t singled out the SM’s here, so I could use some guidance on where/when we might do at least part of a session on their contributions to a new play room. 

The course will be in two rounds, not three, leaving longer for each group to work together, and room to discuss different facets of working on a new play.

Round 1 will be drawn from a play that playwrights are already working on of any length. But they will only PRESENT PART of it at the end of the round.
Round 2 will be based on a prompt and written FOR and ON the actors in the class, or each other if we need non-actors to act. 

Class time will be used for discussions/panels/guests and even maybe some reading assignments around specific topics/concerns, followed by opportunities to either rehearse with actors in the afternoon, or present specific material/text, etc.

The presentations in both rounds will be strictly limited to 15 minutes of material. In the first round, this may be a portion of a play in progress. In round 2, I will ask them to write complete very short (10 min) plays. The teams may present Round 1 in any form they wish - reading, staged reading, on or off book, fully staged scene. Round 2 must be up on its feet and off book, though minimally teched. 

As you can see, the actors and stage managers would be called in to class on certain days only (mostly afternoons).