This 4-month screenwriting workshop will focus on a particular film project that you are working on (TV show, feature film, web series, adaptation, short film, or documentary), to push it to a solid draft that you feel good about. This is similar to a thesis-level class at a MFA workshop.
The class starts on August 6, 2026, Wednesday, and will meet every other week until December 16, 2026, Wednesday from 4-6:30pm PT / 7-9:30pm ET.
Please note: this class is application-based on a rolling basis. Before signing up for the fall term, please send a 10-page writing sample and a paragraph describing your project and what you hope to get out of the workshop to Trip Whitfield, trip dot whitfield at gmail dot com. We’ll get back to you soon with next steps.
In the fall workshop, we will focus on a careful analysis and discussion of screenplays that each participant is working on. We will get to know each other’s projects, each other’s goals, and dive deep in each project to really bring out the unique voice and truths that each project holds. We also will be reading and looking at films that exist in the world, in order to help us expand and examine ideas of craft, structure, form, and play. Using both participants' screenplays and existing work in the world, this class will push each participant towards getting closer to their unique voices, developing a filmmaking project that each participant can be proud of, pushing it to the next step.
Our feedback sessions will be focused on discussing the truth that we see in the project, the voice that’s coming through in the script, and the idea of what this script is specifically offering that is unique. We will do table reads of parts of the script, to help benefit the writer by hearing the dialogue out loud. From there, our feedback will be based on how to get this script closer to the vision of itself that it is articulating and centering the writer—moving beyond ideas of what one “should” do, or our reactions or individual taste. I view workshop and feedback as a sacred container, a gift we bring each other by engaging thoroughly in each others’ work. And that will be upheld throughout the semester.
Throughout the class, we also will discuss the industry of filmmaking, what it means to be a working writer, and pathways that are both traditional and non-traditional in a career as a filmmaker.
You can read testimonials from previous students here. If you’re interested in a generative class, there’s more about the spring term here; if you’re interested in both, you can learn more here.
This 4-month screenwriting workshop will focus on a particular film project that you are working on (TV show, feature film, web series, adaptation, short film, or documentary), to push it to a solid draft that you feel good about. This is similar to a thesis-level class at a MFA workshop.
The class starts on August 6, 2026, Wednesday, and will meet every other week until December 16, 2026, Wednesday from 4-6:30pm PT / 7-9:30pm ET.
Please note: this class is application-based on a rolling basis. Before signing up for the fall term, please send a 10-page writing sample and a paragraph describing your project and what you hope to get out of the workshop to Trip Whitfield, trip dot whitfield at gmail dot com. We’ll get back to you soon with next steps.
In the fall workshop, we will focus on a careful analysis and discussion of screenplays that each participant is working on. We will get to know each other’s projects, each other’s goals, and dive deep in each project to really bring out the unique voice and truths that each project holds. We also will be reading and looking at films that exist in the world, in order to help us expand and examine ideas of craft, structure, form, and play. Using both participants' screenplays and existing work in the world, this class will push each participant towards getting closer to their unique voices, developing a filmmaking project that each participant can be proud of, pushing it to the next step.
Our feedback sessions will be focused on discussing the truth that we see in the project, the voice that’s coming through in the script, and the idea of what this script is specifically offering that is unique. We will do table reads of parts of the script, to help benefit the writer by hearing the dialogue out loud. From there, our feedback will be based on how to get this script closer to the vision of itself that it is articulating and centering the writer—moving beyond ideas of what one “should” do, or our reactions or individual taste. I view workshop and feedback as a sacred container, a gift we bring each other by engaging thoroughly in each others’ work. And that will be upheld throughout the semester.
Throughout the class, we also will discuss the industry of filmmaking, what it means to be a working writer, and pathways that are both traditional and non-traditional in a career as a filmmaker.
You can read testimonials from previous students here. If you’re interested in a generative class, there’s more about the spring term here; if you’re interested in both, you can learn more here.
