SCRIPT X 461.2E
Turn an existing story into a compelling script in the continuation of a two-part series on adaptation for film and television.
Format: In-Person
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 423.4
Improve your complete pilot script and prepare yourself to get it in front of readers in this course for advanced writers.
Format: In-Person
Next Start Date: April 18, 2023
SCRIPT X 412.4
Get a guided approach to rewriting your completed script as you assess your draft and identify areas to strengthen and celebrate.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 423.9
In this fast-paced workshop, you take a pilot from concept to script as you learn about the television industry from guest speakers.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 423.5
Learn how successful showrunners manage their series in this practical course taking you behind the scenes of today’s TV landscape.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 412.3
Get individualized feedback on your script in progress in this workshop for advanced screenwriting students.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 415.11
Enhance the scenes in your scripts by focusing on character motivation and how the scene advances the character arc.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: May 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 471.1
Get a comprehensive introduction to the craft of writing and creating comics, regardless of your drawing abilities and prior experience.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 415.4
Take a deep dive into putting the best words into your characters’ mouths in this exercise and workshop-based course teaching you to put your best voice forward.
Format: Hybrid (In-Person)
Next Start Date: April 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 464.9E
Learn to create characters audiences will love and remember in this workshop for beginning and intermediate film and TV writers.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 463.1E
Focus on your script writing at the scene level to enhance conflict, subtext, characterization, dialogue, and imagery and strengthen your project.
Format: In-Person
Next Start Date: April 13, 2023
SCRIPT X 463.10E
Perfect and focus your ideas before you even put fingers to keyboard in this generative class focused on story development and form
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 442.1
Learn to write interactive stories and branching narratives that bring our favorite video games to life.
Format: Hybrid (In-Person)
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 422.7
Discover what makes the dramedy more than the sum of its parts in this workshop where you articulate your series idea and outline your pilot.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 422.8
Continue writing your dramedy pilot script while practicing the basics of strong television writing.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 410.1
Learn how to write a screenplay by developing a compelling story and tackling a feature film script outline in this first course of a four-course sequence.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 11, 2023
SCRIPT X 410.2
Building on your outline from the first course in the feature film sequence, continue to learn how to write a screenplay by completing the first act of your film script.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 410.3
Tackle writing up the next 45 pages of your script and learn powerful creative techniques in our third course in the screenwriting sequence.
Format: Remote | Online | In-Person
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 410.4
Finish your feature film script and learn revision tactics in our fourth and final basic screenwriting course.
Format: In-Person | Online | Remote
Next Start Date: April 10, 2023
SCRIPT X 413
Take a script from concept to completion in this intensive workshop for just 8 students.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 411.1
This course puts experienced screenwriters on track to complete a new script in a supportive community of like-minded writers.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 13, 2023
SCRIPT X 411.2
This course helps experienced screenwriters complete their new script in a collaborative environment.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 411.3
Writers who have completed at least two feature-length screenplays engage in analysis and revision in this rewriting workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 410.5
Designed for screenwriters who have written their first screenplay, this workshop guides you to analyze and rewrite your draft and bring it to its fullest potential. You develop skills to rewrite…
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 18, 2023
SCRIPT X 464.3E
Position yourself for success by learning and incorporating professional script formatting into your work.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 30, 2023
SCRIPT X 463.6E
Get insight into how to get your script noticed in screenwriting competitions to push your career forward.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 401
Craft and tinker with your story from a high-level point of view in this workshop teaching you the basics of screen story for beginners.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 4, 2023
SCRIPT X 421.1
Learn how to construct a story and write a script outline for an existing half-hour series in this introductory TV writing course.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 421.2
Go from outline to the first draft script of a half-hour series, mirroring the professional TV writer's room environment.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Hybrid (Remote)
Next Start Date: April 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 422.1
Learn how to write a TV script in this course that takes you from half-hour pilot idea to beat sheet and the teaser pages of your script.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 422.2
Finish your half-hour pilot script as you rework, refine, and revise your progress made until you reach the end.
Format: Hybrid (In-Person) | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 421.1N
Develop story documents and an outline for a script for an existing half-hour TV series in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 421.2N
Turn your existing half-hour spec episode outline into a full script in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.1N
Develop story documents and an outline for a script for an original pilot half-hour TV series in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.2N
Turn your original half-hour pilot episode outline into a full script in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.9
Improve your existing script draft until it's a story that demands the reader's attention and gets you noticed
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 464.11E
Learn how masterful screenwriters put realistic words into their characters’ mouths in this course dedicated to the art and craft of dialogue.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 11, 2023
SCRIPT X 400
Get a crash course on various aspects of writing for silver screens, TV screens, web video, audio podcasts, and/or comics in this high-level overview of what each genre offers writers.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: May 4, 2023
SCRIPT X 469.12E
Learn to market your script--and yourself--in this course designed for students with at least one completed script.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 412.5
Polish your screenplay draft by incorporating powerful cinematic elements and reviewing your story structure in advanced course.
Format: In-Person
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 421.3
Learn how to construct a story and write a script outline for an existing one-hour series in this introductory TV writing course.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 421.4
Go from outline to the first draft script of a one-hour series, mirroring the professional TV writer's room environment.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Hybrid (Remote)
Next Start Date: April 11, 2023
SCRIPT X 422.3
Develop the world, characters, tone, and story engine for an original TV series before developing an outline and your script's first act.
Format: In-Person | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 422.4
Carry your pilot script across the finish line in this workshop focused on helping you fix story problems, maximize drama, and write to the end.
Format: Hybrid (In-Person) | Remote | Online
Next Start Date: April 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 421.3N
Develop story documents and an outline for a script for an existing one-hour TV series in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 421.4N
Turn your existing one-hour spec episode outline into a full script in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.3N
Develop story documents and an outline for a script for an original pilot one-hour TV series in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.4N
Turn your original one-hour pilot episode outline into a full script in this fast-paced, intensive workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 422.10
Improve your existing script draft until it's a story that demands the reader's attention and gets you noticed
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 13, 2023
SCRIPT 726.14
Learn professional proofreading techniques and notations in this interactive seminar demonstrating how to ensure your script says what it needs to say in the best way possible.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: May 25, 2023
SCRIPT X 415.10B
Complete the relationship-driven script you started as you deepen your writing with lectures, discussions, and workshops.
Format: In-Person
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 462.4E
Learn how screenwriters can participate in the global market for television series in this workshop helping you jumpstart a project.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 8, 2023
SCRIPT X 469.5E
Get an overview of the work of script doctors, complete with hands-on opportunities to improve scripts in progress.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 425.5
Explore the history of televised storytelling by watching and breaking current shows, developing knowledge to help you craft your own innovative series
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 15, 2023
SCRIPT X 426.1
Get a thorough overview of the role of a showrunner in this intensive workshop that prepares you for success in the television industry.
Format: Remote
Next Start Date: April 17, 2023
SCRIPT X 469.1E
Get insider tips on how to identify the best managers and agents who can take your career to the next level.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: May 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 463.9E
Harness the promise of your ideas by learning to wrangle them into linked digital notes, giving you a series of starting points for new projects
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 424
Complete a Television Certificate as you develop a spec of an existing series and original pilot, with weeks devoted to professional development and revision practices.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 469.11E
Learn to master the many functions of Final Draft software to take your project to the next level.
Format: Hybrid (Remote)
Next Start Date: May 3, 2023
SCRIPT X 416.3E
Learn how studios review and approve screenplays as you get hands-on experience in the critical art of writing coverage on scripts.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 12, 2023
SCRIPT X 463.7E
Begin your documentary project by learning the best practices of writing in the genre in this workshop for those new to writing in documentary forms.
Next Start Date: TBA
SCRIPT X 463.8E
Develop a half-hour animated pilot while learning the ins and outs of this unique genre of television.
Next Start Date: TBA
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