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Writing the Epic (even in small spaces)

Instructor: Jonathan Payne

When theatre reopens, the landscape will have changed. Writers should begin to expand their reach and think outside themselves. How can you encompass the huge world around you? How can you write the truly epic, the truly impossible, the truly unique, when you may be produced in tiny spaces? How can you retain the intimacy of the specific and combine it with the improbability of the epic?

Join award-winning playwright Jonathan Payne in a unique class setting, where you discuss how to fill Yankee Stadium with your words, or how you can recreate Yankee Stadium in a black box setting, and how to find the extraordinary in your writing.