WRITE IT TO MAKE IT
Screenwriting Master Class with Dan Kitrosser
4 Week Class | Wednesdays 6-9/10 PM | February 12 - March 4, 2020
Registration: $165.00*
Develop your choice of a short-form screenplay or the first act of a feature length!
In this four week crash-course of screenwriting, Portland-based playwright and screenwriter Dan Kitrosser will teach some nuts and bolts of the screenwriting trade, while also providing a safe space writers' workshop.
In this four week crash-course of screenwriting, Portland-based playwright and screenwriter Dan Kitrosser will teach some nuts and bolts of the screenwriting trade, while also providing a safe space writers' workshop.
Dan Kitrosser's Screen Credits
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“An Uncut Gem” — The New York Times
Dan co-wrote the screenplay with director Jeremiah Zagar, based on the Novel by Justin Torres, released by The Orchard. For We the Animals, Dan received a Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship, and Maryland Film Festival Grant. Winner! Sundance NEXT: Innovator Award Winner! OUTFest 2018 Best Narrative National Board of Review Top Ten 2018 Nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards Nominated for GLAAD Award |
Dan was the Script Consultant for the film written by Jordana Spiro and Angelica Nwandu and directed by Jordana Spiro, released by Samuel Goldwyn.
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Dan is currently adapting Anne Tyler’s novel with producer Jamie Wolfe.
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Registration: $165.00*
4 week curriculum: (3-4 hour classes)
This course will be geared toward writing character-driven screenplays that will be shootable. Screenwriters should come to the class prepared to start something new. Over the course of the four weeks, we will screen short films and discuss what is accomplished in the first acts of feature length films. Screenwriters will leave the four weeks having written a host of in-class exercises, as well as their own short screenplay or first act.
This course will be geared toward writing character-driven screenplays that will be shootable. Screenwriters should come to the class prepared to start something new. Over the course of the four weeks, we will screen short films and discuss what is accomplished in the first acts of feature length films. Screenwriters will leave the four weeks having written a host of in-class exercises, as well as their own short screenplay or first act.
***Register and pay online early, as classes that do not meet the minimum enrollment may be cancelled. ***
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Dan Kitrosser is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and storyteller. He cowrote the screenplay for WE THE ANIMALS which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018, winning the NEXT: Innovator Award, Best Narrative at OutFest 2018 and is nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and a GLAAD Award. He is currently working on the screen adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel SEARCHING FOR CALEB and his play THIRD PERSON will have a reading at Bag & Baggage on Sunday, February 17th! Dan is the 2018 Peter Shaffer Award Winner, a 2016 TimeWarner 150 Fellow, a 2014 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, a 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Fellow, a 2015 TerraNOVA Collective Groundbreaker, a Maryland Filmmakers Fellow and for his writing of TAR BABY, Dan received the Fringe First Award for Playwriting at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a Special Citation from Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Awards. |
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Dan's plays include TAR BABY (First Fringe Award, Edinburgh Fringe, and an Amnesty International Citation for Excellence), DEAD SPECIAL CRABS (monologues published in Smith & Kraus Best Men’s and Women’s…) and THE MUMBLINGS (optioned for TV series by FOX).
