WGA Foundation Crafts Workshop
For those of you living in So Cal, the WGA Foundation has put together what looks to be an excellent series of live events called “Notes on Craft”:
This autumn, the Writers Guild Foundation will host a series of six evenings entitled Notes on Craft. Each evening will feature two or three writers in conversation with Academy-nominated writer Dan Petrie Jr. (Beverly Hills Cop; The Big Easy) on various aspects of the screenwriting craft. The formal part of the evening will be followed by an audience Q & A.
Writers taking part will include John August (Big Fish, Go), Robert Eisele (The Great Debaters), Diane English (Murphy Brown; The Women), Bruce Evans & Raynold Gideon (Stand by Me, Mr. Brooks), Jack Epps, Jr. (Top Gun; Dick Tracy), Nick Kazan (Reversal of Fortune; Fallen), Jim Kouf (Rush Hour; National Treasure) Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (Four Christmases; The Hangover), Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek, The Human Stain, Elegy), Melissa Rosenberg (Dexter, Twilight), Thomas Rickman (Coal Miners Daughter, Tuesdays with Morrie), Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost; The Time Traveler’s Wife), Margaret Nagle (Warm Springs; Side Order of Life), Robin Swicord (Little Women; The Jane Austen Book Club), Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat; Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep) and more. Check here regularly for updates.
Held Tuesdays at the WGF/WGA offices — 7000 W 3rd St, LA 90048
7:30 pm to about 9:00 pm.
Purchase Series Tickets Here
Online Prices (booking fees not included): $100 — General; $80 — WGA; $60 — Student with ID
Door Prices (through Oct 13 only): $125- General; $100 — WGA; $75 — Student with ID
October 13: The Concept — TICKETS
October 20: Characters — TICKETS
October 27: Structure — TICKETS
November 3: Tone and Voice — TICKETS
November 10: Dialogue and Scene — TICKETS
November 17: Rewriting and Polishing — TICKETS
Individual Night Prices:
Online Prices: $20 General; $15 WGA members; $10 Students with ID — plus booking fees
Door Prices: $25 General; $20 WGA members; $15 Students with ID.
That’s an impressive roster of screenwriters and it’s a format the WGA Foundation does very well. Here’s an excerpt of the Foundation’s “Writers on Writing” series, this one featuring screenwriter Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show, Donnie Brasco, The Good German):
What’s particularly great about this “Notes on Craft” series is that they’ve created topics so that by attending all six sessions, you will likely learn something important about virtually every key aspect of screenwriting: Concept, Characters, Structure, Tone and Voice, Dialogue and Scene, Rewriting and Polishing.