Playwriting
Fall 2025 . Red Rocks Community ColLeGe 

💬   Discussion Module 15

✍🏼   Extra Credit Scene #2: 2nd Chance

🎭   Extra Credit Play #2: Keeping Up with the Season

📌  Play Journal Due
📌  Play Readings next week!

📖  Dramatist Guild Submission Letter and Production Resume
📖  Ten Reasons You Should be Writing Ten-Minute Plays
📖  Networking for Playwrights
📖  How to Submit so your Plays get Produced

💬   Discussion Module 14

✍🏼   Extra Credit Scene #1: Transgression OR Literalization of Metaphor

🎭   Extra Credit Play #1: Local Writers

📌  Professional Profile Due
📌  Cast & Schedule Rehearsal

📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 22-24 

💬   Discussion Module 12

✍🏼   Rewrite Selected Scene #2

🎭   Your choice!

📌  Choose scene for End-of-Semester public reading

📖   The Troubleshooter's Checklist, Page 82-84
(Link to publication--preview)
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 21

💬   Discussion Module 11

✍🏼   Rewrite Selected Scene #1

🎭   In Ways Both Frivolous and Deep by Marin Gazzaniga

(Content Note: In Ways Both Frivolous and Deep includes coversation about infertility and references to an abortion.)

📖   The Dramatist's Bill of Rights
📖  Tips for Rewriting
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 19-20 

💬   Discussion Module 10

✍🏼   Status / Power Shift

🎭   Your choice!

📌  Select 2nd script for rewrites

📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 17-18 

💬   Discussion Module 09

✍🏼   I Love You

🎭   Your choice!

📌  Select 1st script for rewrites.

📖   Jose Rivera's 36 Assumptions About Playwriting
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 14-16

💬   Discussion Module 08

✍🏼   Transgression OR Literalization of Metaphor

🎭   Your Choice!

📖  The 6 Most Common Dialogue Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 11-13

💬   Discussion Module 07

✍🏼   High & Low Context Dialogue

🎭   Your Choice!

📖   Video: One Minute Theatre Lesson
📖   Video:  History of Theater
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 10

💬   Discussion Module 06

✍🏼   Prop & Place

🎭   History / Genre Plays

📖   Decoding the 6 Aristotelean Elements of Drama
📖   Reference: Aristotle--On Tragedy
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 7-9

💬   Discussion Module 05

✍🏼   Contrasts: Beginning / Ending

🎭   Betrayal by Harold Pinter

(Content Note: Betrayal includes reference to spousal abuse.)

📖   Tips for Writing Character Descriptions
📖   Naked Playwriting Ch 3-5

💬   Discussion Module 04

✍🏼   Picture This

🎭   Tail of the Bell by Gabriel Neustadt*

(*Follow Spotify Link from linked page. Content Note: Tail of the Bell contains conversation about a possible sexual encounter between a teenager and an adult.)

📖   Explore Howlround
📖  Naked Playwriting Ch 1&2

💬   Discussion Module 03

✍🏼   Contract / Negotiation

🎭   Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau 

(Film access available through free trial of BroadwayHD through Amazon Prime Video.)