Performance Writing Workshop

Learn writing principles to keep your audience engaged and excited throughout an entire
performance. Whether you write sketches, stories, performance poetry, comedy, radio drama,
or something else entirely, this workshop can help you make sure your material is performance ready.

Beginners are especially welcome! You don’t need writing or performing experience, just
curiosity and enthusiasm.
 

Be prepared to have fun generating ideas, working collaboratively, and even trying out some
new material!

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About your instructor, Will

Will Cordeiro earned an M.S. in Education from Brooklyn College and both an MFA (Creative
Writing) and Ph.D. (Dramatic Literature) from Cornell University. Will has been the co-founder
and Artistic Director of Brooklyn Playwrights collective, the Artist-in-Residence at Risley
Theater, and has taught in NAU’s Honors college for nearly a decade. Will’s play and
performance works have been produced widely. Will is the author of Trap Street (Able Muse
2021) and coauthor of Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury,
forthcoming 2023).