WRITING A MUSICAL Workshop

Taught by two time Tony Award winner Greg Kotis

Explore the fundamentals of writing an original musical with playwright Greg Kotis (Urinetown) Emphasis will be on character, story structure, scene structure, and identifying and writing songs for a musical.

Attendance limited to 20 participants.
Suitable for musical mavens of all ages.

Duration: 2 hours

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Greg Kotis is a two-time Tony™ Award winning author of many plays and musicals including Urinetown (Book/Lyrics), I Am Nobody, Give the People What They Want, Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards, Yeast Nation (Book/Lyrics), The Truth About Santa, Pig Farm, Eat the Taste, and Jobey and Katherine. Future projects include ZM, an original musical about teenaged fast-food workers trying to survive a zombie plague. Greg is a co-founder (along with his wife Ayun Halliday) of Theater of the Apes, and is a member of the Neo-Futurists, the Cardiff Giant Theater Company, ASCAP, and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and now lives in New York City.