Writing Classes|scripthealer

NEW CLASSES AUGUST 2023!

With Francine Volpe and Aurin Squire

Write scripthealer@yahoo.com ASAP for enrollment

Solid Foundations, Well Built Stories: August 4th-6th
6:00-9:30 EST, via ZOOM

The Writers Room, Workshop & Practice: August 11th-13th
6:00-9:30 EST, via ZOOM

Francine Volpe has packed everything she knows about developing and writing content for television into this intimate, interactive ZOOM course taught with Aurin Squire. Featuring special guests.

Pricing:
$595 (Weekend One)
$345 (Weekend Two)

Both weekends are $900.

Class size is limited.
To reserve your spot, email scripthealer@yahoo.com.

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Weekend One: Solid Foundations, Well Built Stories

FRIDAY AUGUST 4th, 6–9:30 PM EST

Distinguishing the Medium – Instructor, Francine Volpe

Understanding the foundations of our greatest TV series from All in The Family to I May Destroy You will set you on the right path to preparing for and writing your original script. You’ll learn the fundamental principles of television writing with a focus on the underlying structures and expectations of the medium. You’ll leave class with a template to ensure that you have every necessary element to build your show on a solid foundation.

SATURDAY AUGUST 5th, 6 – 9:00 PM EST

Developing and Pitching Your Series – Instructor, Aurin Squire

Now that you have assembled all the elements, how do you expand your ideas into a fully fleshed-out TV show? Aurin Squire will show you how to develop and organize your thoughts into a compelling idea that meets the industry standard. This includes creating supporting characters, a pilot storyline, and an arc for the first season and beyond. He will help you seed your personal connection to the material and show you how to pitch it all vividly and concisely to engage buyers - proving to them that you not only know how to write your pilot script but how to successfully guide your show to the fullest extent of its premise. You will leave class with a blueprint for pitching your show.

SUNDAY AUGUST 6th, 6-9:30 PM ET

Writing the Pilot – Instructor, Francine Volpe

This is a walk through of all aspects of the craft of dramatic and visual storytelling. Each pilot script is a gem that must be cut differently – but no less carefully. Video clips from existing television shows will be shown to demonstratively convey principles and reveal many different techniques. Focus is put on the practical application of principles so that you will leave class with lasting tools and energized to begin writing your pilot.

Weekend Two: The Writers Room, Workshop & Practice

Friday, August 11th, 6- 9 PM

Aurin Squire will spend a majority of class leading you through an interactive “mock writers’ room”. You will learn how to perform on the job. Aurin and Francine will also teach you exactly how they prepare and nail general meetings and staffing interviews. This is an invaluable class for anyone interested in writing professionally.

Saturday, August 12th and Sunday August 13th, 6- 9:30 PM

Here's where we hear from you! Francine Volpe and special guest Showrunners will listen to your pitches, or offer mock general meetings or mock staffing interviews. This individual feedback is offered to improve your chances of success.

WHO ARE WE?

Founded by writer Francine Volpe, scripthealer offers workshops focused on the craft of writing for television. Her workshops are taught alongside cutting-edge television creators, producers, showrunners, and writers.

FRANCINE VOLPE is a playwright and screenwriter from Brooklyn, NY. She has written for the television series: Tokyo Vice (HBO), THEM: Covenant (Amazon), The First (Hulu), P Valley (STARZ) and Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon). Volpe has three original series in development including: Tara Lynch (Topic Studios), In The Garden (Cloud Nine) and Beautiful Creature (Westbrook). Her play, The Good Mother was directed by Scott Elliot and featured Gretchen Mol; it was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She was commissioned by The New Group in 2017 for her play Supine Butterfly. Francine is the winner of the 2016 McKnight National Playwright Residency and was the inaugural winner of the Lanford Wilson Prize in Playwriting. Other plays include The Given (also finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and Late Fragment (both directed by Michael Imperioli). Francine’s screenplays include I’ll Be Your Mirror. She studied writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Juilliard School. She received a NYFA grant for her low-income playwriting workshop and twice received grants from the Lecomte du Nouy Foundation. She was the winner of the Agnes Ranjo Capps scholarship at the Missoula Playwrights Colony and the winner of a 2016 residency at The MacDowell Colony. She has taught screenwriting, playwriting and television writing in the graduate film department at NYU and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a graduate of New Dramatists.

AURIN SQUIRE is a playwright, reporter, and television writer from South Florida. Squire is a co-executive producer on the tv dramas "The Good Fight" and "Evil." He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, a BlackReel Award, and a WGA Award for his work on "This is Us." In theatre, Squire's plays have been produced in London, Toronto, and around the United States. At Miami New Drama, he co-wrote “Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy” with Billy Corben and wrote the book for the Louis Armstrong musical, “A Wonderful World.” He has been awarded the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, Seattle Public Theatre’s Emerald Prize for new plays, and National Black Theatre's "I Am Soul" playwriting fellowship. Squire was also a writer on Miami New Drama's "7 Deadly Sins," which won a Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive Theatre. He is a New Dramatists resident playwright, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Writers Guild of America. He graduated from The Juilliard School and Northwestern University.