Author Chris Tebbetts brings his energizing Theatre Camp for Writers to the Carolinas in three key parts:
Submit your scene(s)!
Friday, Sept 11th - for attendees of the Intensive: Theatre Camp for Writers
Participants are strongly encouraged (but not required) to submit scenes/excerpts from a work in progress to be “rehearsed” as if for performance, using volunteer actors from the class to take parts, read a few of these scenes, and offer constructive, interactive feedback to the authors in real time. Submitted scenes should have a focus on dialogue, action, and/or interaction between your characters. During the workshop, we will use these scenes to illustrate specific craft points with an emphasis on what’s working well.
- Submit a scene from your work in progress, 500-1000 words or a whole picture book. Scenes will be read online during the 9/13 Prep event. Scenes will also be put on their feet during the 9/18 Intensive.
- You may submit one scene for both events OR two separate scenes. Please indicate which scene is for which session.
- Deadline to submit: Friday, Sept 11th
Once registered for the Intensive: Theatre Camp for Writers, submission instructions will appear in the MY EVENTS tab of your Member Home.
Join the online prep session!
Sunday, Sept 13th 6 pm - 7:30 pm - for attendees of the Intensive: Theatre Camp for Writers
This event is encouraged but not required for attendees of the half-day intensive. In this preparatory session for Theater Camp, our focus will be scene readings from participant submissions and discussion in the general Theater Camp context: How does this lens help us workshop the writing?
Once registered for the Intensive: Theatre Camp for Writers, the Zoom link to attend this prep session will appear in the MY EVENTS tab of your Member Home.
Intensive: Theatre Camp for Writers
Friday, Sept 18th 1 pm - 5 pm - on campus at AB Tech
What do acting, directing, and improv have to teach us as fiction writers? If you’re bringing characters to life on the page—that’s Acting. If you’re imagining a story in progress—angles, visuals, action, zooming in to details, zooming out to views—that’s Directing. If you’re developing ideas and first-drafting—that’s Improvisation.
Whether you’re noodling on new ideas, have a manuscript or story in progress, or just want to have some fun looking at writing in a new way, join us for this one-day, highly interactive workshop focused on practical, take-away tools you can use in your own writing practice.
Participants are strongly encouraged (but not required) to submit scenes/excerpts from a work in progress to be “rehearsed” as if for performance, using volunteer actors from the class to take parts, read a few of these scenes, and offer constructive, interactive feedback to the authors in real time. Submitted scenes should have a focus on dialogue, action, and/or interaction between your characters. During the workshop, we will use these scenes to illustrate specific craft points with an emphasis on what’s working well.
Please note that this workshop is introvert- and extrovert-friendly. While we will be reading aloud and moving around, no actual performance is required!
Class size limited to 15 participants.
