Education

Playwrights Local offers free and low-cost classes and workshop series that are open to the public.

November 2021

Just the Facts, Man: Documentary Playwriting Workshop with Christopher Johnston
Presented with Literary Cleveland

March 2021

Finding Peace in the Midst of a Pandemic: A Playwriting Workshop with Dr. Mary E. Weems
Presented with Literary Cleveland

September 2020

Act Out! Playwriting Workshop with Dr. Mary E. Weems
Presented with Literary Cleveland

October 2019

Just the Facts, Man: A Docudrama Playwriting Workshop with Christopher Johnston
Presented with Literary Cleveland

Getting Off on the Right Foot: Strategies on Beginnings with George Brandt
Presented with The Dramatists Guild 

October 2018

Who’s on Stage? Workshop for Beginning Playwrights with Dr. Mary E. Weems
Presented with Literary Cleveland 

September 2018

The Sherlock Project with Eric Schmiedl
Presented with Literary Cleveland

Writing Plays That Get Produced with Andrew Black, Amy Drake, & Faye Sholiton
Presented with The Dramatists Guild

June 2018

Staging Your Story with Les Hunter, Christopher Johnston, & Terrence Spivey
Presented with Literary Cleveland

March 2018

The Smallest Stage: Writing the Tabletop Play with Mike Geither and Amy Schwabauer

The Character’s the Thing with Mary E. Weems, Ph.D.

September 2017

Cross-Pollination: The Art of Adapting Works for the Stage with Eric Schmiedl

Working with New Plays: The Director’s Perspective with Sarah Greywitt, Anjanette Hall, & Matthew Wright

April 2017

Fifty Ways to Start a Play with Mike Geither

The Past Is Never Past: Writing History Plays with Arwen Mitchell

November 2016

Podcasting: New Opportunities in Dramatic Storytelling with Justin Glanville & Angie Hayes
Presented with the Dramatists Guild

Crafting the Screenplay: Three-act Structure with Simone Barros
Presented with the Dramatists Guild

New Plays in Northeast Ohio 2016-2017 with Robert Hawkes, Stuart Hoffman, Christopher Johnston, T. Paul Lowry, & Amy Schwabauer, hosted by Arwen Mitchell

September 2016

Finding the Spark with Dale Heinen
Presented with Literary Cleveland

June-July 2016

Introductory Playwriting Workshop with David Todd
Presented with the Cuyahoga County Public Library

April 2016

Playwriting for Kids with Elana Averbach

Dramaturgy for Everyone with Arwen Mitchell
Presented with the Dramatists Guild

Crafting a Great Synopsis with Arwen Mitchell and Rachel Lerner-Ley
Presented with the Dramatists Guild

March 2016

Finding the Spark with Dale Heinen
Presented with Literary Cleveland

November 2015

Plot & Imagination with Michael Oatman

Getting Started as a Cleveland Playwright with Arwen Mitchell, Pandora Robertson & Peter Roth

Dramatic Structure for Beginners with Les Hunter