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