COME TRAIN AND DEVISE WITH US THIS SUMMER IN NEW YORK CITY!
MOMENT WORK DEVISING TRAINING
Levels 1 & 2
with Jimmy Maize & NJ Agwuna
June 21 - 23, 2024
Friday 5 - 9 PM | Saturday 12 - 6 PM | Sunday 12 - 6 PM
Tuition: $400
Our world-renowned devising training for undergraduate and graduate students and theater professionals. Open to playwrights, performers, directors, choreographers and designers. Artists from visual arts and film are also welcome to attend. Train in working with the elements of the stage and learn and practice constructing narratives using Moment Work.
Level 3 “MAKING WORK COLLABORATIVELY”
June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday from 6 - 10 PM
Tuition: $400
Level 3 teaches how to create original devised work using Moment Work. Artists employ organizing principle as a tool to create theatrically innovative and narratively cohesive original short pieces.
Prerequisite: Levels training 1 & 2
Discount for attending Levels 1, 2 & 3 together: $750
MOMENT WORK FOR THE ACTOR
with Moisés Kaufman
June 24 - 26, 2024 | 10 AM - 6 PM
Tuition: $600
Tony and Emmy Award-nominated director and playwright, Moisés Kaufman empowers actors to use Tectonic Theater Project's devising method to hone their craft. Kaufman provides actors with tools they can use in both rehearsal and performance to develop their characters and deepen their expertise. Participants will select a character from a play as well as a monologue to work on in collaboration with Kaufman.
Prerequisite: Moment Work Training Levels 1 & 2
INTRO TO WRITING THE BLACK PLAY
a course by jeremy o’brian
June 17 - 27, 2024
Monday - Thursday from 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $400
Writing the Black Play is a playwriting workshop dedicated to the exploration of what it means to write Black plays and characters. Through practice exercises and discussion, we will study components of playwriting using the works of contemporary Black-American playwrights and works featuring Black-American characters, as we collectively construct a metric for measuring whether or not a play is "Black."
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT 1
with Leigh Fondakowski
July 8 - 12, 2024
Monday - Friday from 6:30 - 10 PM
Tuition: $450
This workshop is a deep dive into the world of the play, how to think theatrically about your material, and how to develop the overall narrative, structure, and theatrical life of the play. Participants can work with an existing original script at any stage of development.
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT 2
July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday from 6:30 - 10 PM
Tuition: $450
In part two of this workshop, students see their plays come to life as they work on their feet as an ensemble to test their dramaturgical theories and define the theatrical event they are creating.
Prerequisite: New Play Development 1;
Moment Work Training Levels 1-3 suggested;
Discount for 1 & 2 together: $750
STRANGER THAN FICTION:
DRAMATURGY & MOMENT WORK
a course by Amy Marie Seidel
July 12 - 15, 2024 | 10 AM - 6PM
Tuition: $400
Fresh off the New York premiere of Tectonic Theater Project's Here There Are Blueberries, comes this research-driven devising practicum. Dramaturg and director Amy Marie Seidel provides students with an inside look into the process of devising theater from archival material. All theater makers can benefit from this hands-on workshop, wherein students will work together to research and bring to life history through Moment Work.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEACHER TRAINING
June 17 - 21, 2024 in New York City
Our Professional Development Teacher Training, now in its 6th year, is specially designed for college professors and high school teachers to learn the method and pedagogy of Moment Work and practical applications for use in classrooms to enhance their existing curricula. Participants will explore the elements of the stage, learning our teaching philosophy and practice from our Advanced Teaching Artists, including Scott Barrow, Leigh Fondakowski, and Rick Pak.
Moment Work is Tectonic's groundbreaking technique used to create such works as The Laramie Project, 33 Variations, and Here there are Blueberries. Moment Work is a collaborative method for devising theater that uses every available element of stagecraft—sound, lights, space, text, costumes, and more—to bring a story to life. Successful graduates of the program will receive a Certificate of Training from Tectonic's Moment Work Institute, Leigh Fondakowski, MWI Chair, under the Artistic Direction of Moisés Kaufman.
This workshop is ideal for educators who have taken previous workshops and want to focus on HOW to teach Moment Work, as well as educators who have never taken a workshop before.
Among the 40 Teachers From Across the US and Canada Who Have Taken This Intensive, Responses Include:
“Moment Work is magical. There is something beautiful and necessary about bringing theater people (and theater educators, in particular) into a room for a week. I learned so much from everyone there.”
“This training has made me think about creating theater in a new way. I’ve been teaching for over 15 years, and Moment Work has helped me become inspired to integrate the methodologies to my classes and to my productions, giving life/voice to all the theatrical elements.”
Monday, June 17 through Friday, June 21, 2024 from 10 AM - 6 PM
Includes a Certificate of Training from Tectonic’s Moment Work Institute