CLASSES IN PLAYWRITING
Four months of playwriting classes at the Arts Club Theatre Company with Playwright Shawn Macdonald, both live and online in the TELUS Classroom, includes: ground breaking exercises, on writing a full-length play and the creation of a short play, online chats, personal feedback on work submitted, access to the online class room, only for LEAP students.
LEARN HOW TO PRODUCE YOUR PLAYS
Discussions on how to re-write a play after a reading, how to submit a play to a theatre, and information on international youth playwriting competitions and opportunities
HAVE A PROFESSIONAL READING OF YOUR PLAY
by Professional Actors at the Arts Club
SEE PLAYS, MEET PROFESSIONALS
Meet Theatre Professionals who work on New Plays, Tour the Arts Club, Field Trips
All students accepted into the program will be on FULL SCHOLARSHIP. The students will have to arrange their own transportation to and from the Arts Club playwriting classes, readings, and shows.
INSTRUCTOR/PROGRAM LEADER
Shawn Macdonald is an award-winning playwright and actor. His play Prodigal Son won the Jessie Award for Outstanding Original Script last year. He co-wrote the comedies World’s Greatest Guy and Fear Knot (with Gary Jones) for the Arts Club Theatre and his newest play The Fall of Sister Judy was commissioned by the Arts Club as part of the Silver Commissions Program.
