In-School Residency: Young Playwrights Workshop

• To give a voice to emerging young writers, students will learn to write dialogue and learn script writing format, build characters, write two monologues, create a setting, and begin creation of a scene.
• The residency will align with Missouri and Kansas English Language Arts and Theatre Arts standards and will offer students the option to share their work with each other.
• The workshop can be conducted in-person in your school or at another site (often the Westport CoffeeHouse is available at no additional charge).
• Following this residency, promising participants 7th grade and older may be selected to develop their plays in The Coterie’s Young Playwrights Roundtable.
• The Coterie professionally stages works from the Roundtable members in its annual Young Playwrights Festival.

Three classroom sessions 50-minutes in length, two classroom sessions 2.5-hours in length, OR one classroom session, 5-hours in length.
Grades 7-12th.
Timeline is flexible but should be completed within a month.

Pricing:

• For each classroom sized group, choose between: 
  • One 5-hour session for $450
  • Two 2.5-hour sessions  for $450
  • Three 50-minute sessions for $300
•  10% discount for 4 or more classrooms.
  *a mileage fee may be charged for travel outside the Kansas City metro area

Testimonials

“Now when I write, I think a lot more about detail… I’m more confident in my writing.”
-Trailridge Student

“[I’d] never heard of this program and I thought it was good to get my advanced theatre kids out of school and learn something they did not know how to do… [Young Playwrights Workshop] not only did that, but it was fun! ALL of my kids not only said they enjoyed it, but they loved it… great instructor… patient and kind and knew how to deal with them! They wanted to share everything…!”
-Timothy Haynes, Grandview High

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For questions or further information about In-School Residencies, contact Stephanie Laaker, Booking Coordinator, at (816) 994-8832 or slaaker@coterietheatre.org.