A Writing Masterclass with Playwright Greg Kotis
Date and Time
Friday Jul 23, 2021
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EDT
July 23, 11 am to 1 pm
Location
Goodwork/Carey Cottage, 400 Little Harbor Rd, #1102, Portsmouth NH
Fees/Admission
$30. To register To register, visit https://www.nhtheatreproject.org/adultprograms
Contact Information
New Hampshire Theatre Project, 603-431-6644
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Description
This masterclass will explore the fundamentals of writing an original musical. Emphasis will be on character, story structure, scene structure, and identifying and writing songs for a musical. Greg Kotis is a two time TonyTM Award winning author of many plays and musicals including Urinetown (Book/Lyrics), I Am Nobody, Give the People What They Want, Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards, Yeast Nation (Book/Lyrics), The Truth About Santa, Pig Farm, Eat the Taste, and Jobey and Katherine. Future projects include ZM, an original musical about teenaged fast-food workers trying to survive a zombie plague. Greg is a co-founder (along with his wife Ayun Halliday) of Theater of the Apes, and is a member of the Neo-Futurists, the Cardiff Giant Theater Company, ASCAP, and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and now lives in New York City.
