Beginning Playwriting

ENGLSH 2560
Section 01 and Section 01a
Semester
Spring
Year
2024
David Crespy
Tuesday
Thursday
TR 9:30-10:45am class; lab to be arranged
Course Description

Cross listed with THEATR 2920-01 and 2920-01a

Following the tradition of Tennessee Williams who wrote his first play at MU, student playwrights will develop new short plays, exploring plot, character, thought, diction, theatricality and lyricism.  Plays will be developed through the Missouri Playwrights Workshop and the Mizzou New Play Series – a project of MU Theatre’s Award-winning Writing For Performance Program.  Over a hundred Mizzou student dramatists have won awards through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.