“Tectonic Theater Project is a monumental and pioneering voice in American theater. Their work gracefully merges the political and the poetic to excavate truths about the human condition.”
- Lynne Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright
FALL 2025–WINTER 2026
IN-PERSON + REMOTE TRAININGS
IN PERSON TRAININGS
MOMENT WORK FOR DIRECTORS AND DESIGNERS
with Moisés Kaufman
New York City
Sept 10–12 | 10 am–6pm
New Students: $375 | MWI Alum: $350
Tony and Emmy Award-nominated director and playwright Moisés Kaufman works with directors and designers in a specialized laboratory to explore the elements of the stage (lights, sets, sound, and costumes) through the lens of staging and storytelling.
Participants will learn how to fully harness each element for its dramatic, poetic and narrative potential. Participants will be assigned material to work with for the week in collaboration with Kaufman.
MOMENT WORK TRAINING INTENSIVE
with Jimmy Maize and NJ Agwuna
New York City
Nov 21–23 | Fri 5–9 pm, Sat 10 am–6 pm, Sun 10 am–6 pm
New Students: $375 | MWI Alum: $350
Our world-renowned Moment Work Devising Intensive for artists. In Levels 1 and 2, artists train in working with the elements of the stage and practice constructing narratives using Moment Work. Level 3 teaches how to create original devised work using Moment Work. Open to playwrights, performers, directors, choreographers and designers. This training is a highly recommended foundational course of study to prepare students for more specialized offerings for actors, directors, and playwrights.
MOMENT WORK FOR THE ACTOR
with Moisés Kaufman
New York City
Feb 2026
EXACT DATES TBD
New Students: $375 | MWI Alum: $350
Tony and Emmy Award-nominated director and playwright Moisés Kaufman works with directors and designers in a specialized laboratory to explore the elements of the stage (lights, sets, sound, and costumes) through the lens of staging and storytelling.
Participants will learn how to fully harness each element for its dramatic, poetic and narrative potential. Participants will be assigned material to work with for the week in collaboration with Kaufman.
REMOTE TRAININGS
VIRTUAL WRITING RETREAT
with Leigh Fondakowski
Friday, Jan 16, 6:30–9:30 pm
Sat and Sun, Jan 17 and Jan 18, 12–6 pm
New Students: $375 | MWI Alum: $350
Devote a weekend to your writing. Through sharings, discussion, and writing exercises, participants learn how to think theatrically about their material, and how to develop the overall narrative, structure, and theatrical life of the play. Participants can work with an original script at any stage of development: from idea to draft to completed play. Fiction, non-fiction and memoir writers are also welcome. Some writers take both cohorts and use the time in between the workshops for re-writes.
“Moment Work has become the foundation of my devising methodology: these practices elevate the theatre maker’s ability to precisely articulate their artistic intentions, which makes for strong devisers as well as actors, directors, designers and playwrights.”
- RICH BROWN, Professor, Physical Acting & Devising at Western Washington University
