Instructor: Andrew Black
Dates: 10 Saturdays: June 6, 13, 27; July 11, 18, 25; August 1, 8, 15, 22
Time: 10:00am – 1:00 PM EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: Nonmember: $750; Writer/Reader Member: $480; Senior Member, Student Member, Librarian Member, Teacher Member, Military/Veteran Member: $420

Okay, you’re ready to want to start writing a full-length play….now what?  You’ve written at least one short play, maybe a few.  You understanding the basic elements of narrative construction and know how to use them….mostly.  You may have even written a full-length play already and want to start another one.  You’re pretty sure you have an idea already you want to develop; you may already have some pages.  And you think could use some support to stay on track during the writing process and get some feedback as you go.  This workshop is for you!  Over the ten-session workshop, you will be expected to bring in new pages every week.  Your work will be read (in some cases, by professional actors who join the class for fun and participate in the feedback), and you will be part of supportive community of writers who will help you develop your work, and make suggestions for ways to improve it.  Come one, come all.

(Pre-requisite:  students must have taken the Foundations of Playwriting class or receive the instructor’s permission.  The Foundations class will begin on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. You can find more info here.)

About the instructor:

Andrew Black, PhD, is a playwright and a teacher of playwrights. He currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he received his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies. His area of research is best practices for teaching playwriting (and many of his research discoveries find their way into his classes for the IWC).

Andrew has an MFA from Ohio University’s School of Theatre. His first full-length play Porn Yesterday (co-written with Patricia Milton in 2001) has been produced across the country. Since that first play reached the stage, it has been a non-stop, full-on adventure!  Many productions of short plays and full-length plays have followed.

Andrew has been on the faculty of the Indiana Writers Center since 2012. He is the founder of the Indiana Playwrights Circle which is a special sub-group of the Indiana Writers Center for playwrights. He is currently working on a one-person show called What Same-Sex Marriage Means to Me which tracks his adventures as a man who loves other men through the changing legal, cultural and political trends of the last 60 years. Check out www.andrewblackplaywright.com.