Workshop 2: Dramatic Structure for Beginners - Les Hunter

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Date(s) - 11/07/2015
4:00 pm

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Festival

Learn the basics of dramatic structure. This two-hour workshop with award-winning playwright Les Hunter will introduce participants to traditional plot points within a narrative arc employed in both plays as well as screenplays. By looking at dramatic structures that have proven successful from Oedipus Rex to the 2014 Oscar Award-winning screenplay, Birdman, this workshop will give participants the tools to recognize the architecture of the narratives they watch, and the ones they write. Please bring a notepad and pen or a laptop for writing.

About the Instructor

As a playwright, Les Hunter wrote for all three parts of the collaboratively written Jackson Heights Trilogy (Theatre 167, published by Indie Theatre Now). Other projects include his plays Biggest Break (Artistic New Directions), Lion of the East (Tribeca Performing Arts Center), Cyrano de Bergen County, New Jersey (published: Playscripts), Notes Towards a Dialectical Theatre Deconstructed, Reconstructed, and Ultimately Discarded: A Love Story (Collective:Unconscious), First Base Coach (with Elana Averbach, published: Brooklyn Publishers), and To the Orchard (Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play Award); an American adaptation with Ozen Yula of his play, For Rent (LPAC,); a screenplay, Lion (Dubai Film Connection); and a musical, ’99, with Ben Morss of the band Cake (Theatre 167). Les’ prose has appeared in American Theatre Magazine, Theatre Survey, Cutbank, Fiction Southeast, offoffonline.com, The Dramatist, The Eugene O’Neill Review, Ecumenica, Comparative Drama, and the anthology Experimental O’Neill. He is an assistant professor of English and theater at Baldwin Wallace University.