Dirt Road Theater is offering a spring playwriting class for ages 13-18, taught by Vermont playwright Tamar Cole! Visit our website for more information and to register: www.dirtroadtheater.com/classes

Sundays: Mar 6 – April 24, 4:00 – 5:30 PM @ United Church of Northfield
Sliding scale: $90-$120 | 8-week session
In this class, students will explore the process of creating a play, with the final goal of writing a five to ten minute play of their own. Through the study of professional short plays and the sharing of our own, we will discover the nuanced and exciting world of building a story for the stage! With exercises, prompts, and discussion, we will learn the basic structure and elements of a play and explore the process of building characters and scenes. We will discuss how to develop the plot, create and resolve conflict, and write dialogue. This class will culminate in a public reading of the students' plays, performed by actors from the DRT community.

Tamar Cole is a teacher and writer for stage, screen and television. She was a finalist at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference with her play Rhymes and Reasons and has written five additional plays including Variations On A Theme, for which she received a fellowship at the CAP21 theater residency in New York City. Screenplays include Living Conditions, optioned by Director/Producer Taylor Hackford and Producer Graham Leader, that was developed for, and with, Helen Mirren. She has also written for TV, and is co-creator of The System, a TV series about foster care and the department of Children and Families, currently in development. For seven years Tamar was the Director of the Whalebone Mentoring Program on Long Island, where she tutored children ages five to eighteen in math and language arts skills. She currently coaches writers of all ages, and has a special appreciation for the imagination and energy of children.