How to Write a Short Play
Two sessions: Thursday January 2 and Tuesday January 21

Learn how to craft and write your own short play in this two-part workshop!

Join Serena Norr of Let’s Make a Play for an immersive workshop to help you to go from idea to the first draft of your play. The class includes a discussion about the structural components of developing plays as well as character development, establishing tone, setting, and creating structure. The class also includes readings of scripts, prompts, hand-outs, and group sharing. The second session ends with some fine-tuning of your plays and a staged reading of your work. No experience is necessary!

Limited to 8 participants.

Tickets (ticket price includes both sessions):

YS Supporter Member (20% discount) : $106
YS Community & Artist Member (10% discount): $120
Non-Member: $132

About Serena Norr

Serena Norr is a writer, director, playwright, and founder of Let’s Make a Play, a playwriting program for kids and adults. Her plays have been performed at the Omaha Fringe Festival, White Plains Performing Arts Center, the New Deal Creative Arts Center, Westchester Collaborative Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Players Theater with the Rogue Theater Festival and the NYC Short Play Festival, The Tank, The Flea, the University of Alabama as well as various productions over Zoom.

She is the director of the short movie “Bland” as well as “Mar and Debbie’s Very Haunted Situation,” “Inspired by True Events,” “Dream Catcher,” and many others.

Her plays have been published in the “Bittersweet Monologue Collection,” “ellipsis…literature & art Drama,” and the “Stonecoast Review.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Westchester Collaborative Theatre, participant in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (2021), the National Women’s Theatre Festival (WTF) Directing Program (2022) and Producing/Directing Program (2023), and The Workshop Theater (2023). For more information, visit Serena’s website here.