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About Our Workshops
We believe that everyone’s life stories are worth telling on stage. Our workshops provide tools for transposing these true stories into theater by delving into the crafts of writing, directing, design, and collaborative devising. Using the non-illusory aesthetic, participants will create new work and sharpen skills for performance that can be applied in any professional setting—whether in the arts field or beyond. All experience levels are welcome.
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Next Neo-Futurist Workshops:
NY Neo-Futurist Workshops
Level 1
Writing and Performing as your Authentic Self: Unleash your creativity! Join our NEWLY REVAMPED 12-hour workshop and dive into the exhilarating world of Neo-Futurist performance. Discover the power of authenticity, dismantle the fourth wall, and respond to the world around you through task-based theatre. With expert guidance, eliminate writer’s block and discover your playwriting potential to create meaningful work. By the end of this course, you'll have written, performed, and workshopped a portfolio your very own short original plays.
Level 2
Developing Your Artistic Process and Practice: Our Level Two workshop is a journey deeper into the Neo-Futurist aesthetic. Participants will be given writing prompts that challenge them to develop their existing body of work. Focusing on deconstruction and revision, participants will create dialogue plays, anti-plays and high-concept, low-budget theater within the Neo-Futurist aesthetic. This class will also build upon on each participant’s strengths as performers. With more personal and detailed feedback from instructors, participants will learn to critically analyze their writing and emerge with polished, ready to be performed, material.
Level 3
Collaboration, Creation, & Performance: In our Level III workshop, delve into the mechanics of creating and collaborating within an ensemble. Participants will create movement pieces, adaptive work, and plays that change the space with spectacle—in service of a full, balanced menu of plays. The class culminates in a workshop performance of the participants’ work, taking the participants through the Neo-Futurist collaborative process of creating an Infinite Wrench show – beginning with a pitch session, then a group rehearsal and, finally, the public performance.
Level 1
Weekend Intensive
Writing and Performing as your Authentic Self: Unleash your creativity! Join our 2-day weekend intensive workshop and dive into the exhilarating world of Neo-Futurist performance. Discover the power of authenticity, dismantle the fourth wall, and respond to the world around you through task-based theatre. With expert guidance, eliminate writer’s block and unleash your playwriting potential to create meaningful work. By the end of this course, you'll have written, performed, and workshopped a portfolio your very own short original plays.
“I was happily surprised at how much this workshop affected my creative writing after the first class”
— Rachel, workshop attendee
Questions, comments, concerns, recipes? Contact us at info@nynf.org