The New York Screenwriter's Lab
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The New York Screenwriters Lab brings together an exceptional roster of industry veterans—acclaimed screenwriters, playwrights, literary agents and educators—who serve as mentors, advisors, and consultants. With diverse backgrounds from award‑winning writing, Hollywood production and top film schools, our staff guide emerging writers in honing their craft and building real-world career pathways.
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Pilot I: Creating the World
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Turn your idea for an original TV series into a solid, working premise with "legs" to sustain itself over multiple seasons. Be guided step-by-step through the process of developing strong 'story engines', building out the 'world' of your show, story construction and the ofter overlooked art of outlining. Learn how to: Create compelling, multi-dimensional characters that we'll want to watch season after season. Construct engaging plots and artfully...
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6-Week Film Screenplay Workshop
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The 6-Week NYSL Film Screenplay Workshop will equip you with fundamental concepts, tools and techniques of screenplay craft, by teaching you how to build your seed idea into a unique and compelling story, and how to best bring out the essence of that story in screenplay form. All while receiving expert feedback from a professional screenwriter at every stage of the journey. By fundamentals we don’t mean what is most basic, but what...
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6-Week TV Pilot Workshop
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The design of the 6-Week NYSL TV Pilot Workshop is to not only help you. develop your script, but to develop you into a truly self-sufficient writer. Rather than serving up a cookie-cutter formula, our goal is to equip you with a solid grasp of the fundamentals of screenwriting, so when you get that next idea for TV show, you won’t need another class. By fundamentals we don’t mean what is most basic, but what is most essential....
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The LAB
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The LAB is an ongoing weekly workshop where people who have taken either a 6-week course or an Intensive can finish their script under the guidance of the instructor and receive feedback from an intimate group of other writers. It’s also a place to rewrite an existing script, workshop an outline, or build out the idea for your next project. Limited to 6 writers, each member of the LAB can submit up to 20 script pages per week (or...
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Film Screenplay Intensive
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This course will equip you with the knowledge, tools and techniques you'll need to write a feature length screenplay. Over the course of the workshop, we will explore: How to design captivating, multi-dimensional characters and avoid cliche How to apply the elements of dramatic structure to best bring out the essence of your unique story. How to create strong narrative and emotional drives in your script, and the difference between the two. The...
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TV Pilot Intensive
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The NYSL 2-Part TV Pilot Itensive will give you a comprehensive overview of the structure and elements that combine to create a successful TV show (comedy or drama). Through lecture, exercises an discussion, the topics covered will include: The various structures used in TV. And which structure will best suit the need of your show. How to pack your show with enough conflict to generate multiple seasons worth of fresh-feeling...
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Reviews of The New York Screenwriter's Lab
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Pilot I: Creating the World
The only tv writing class you'll ever need...Dylan covered everything (with primo examples)! You'll read and dissect the best scripts, write both in and out of class, and get feedback from a master. I signed up for level 2 about 60 seconds after it was offered. If you're serious about getting stronger and finally realizing that idea, do yourself a favor and take this class. -
Film Screenplay Intensive
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Pilot I: Creating the World
Dylan is such a great teacher! He's got a lot of enthusiasm in class and gives lots of great information and feedback. It's a great class to take if you want to start your first pilot script or rework a current one you want to finish. Class is weekly and very structured and homework reading other pilots and watching them. A must if you want to write your first pilot! -
Pilot I: Creating the World
dylan was great, solid knowledge, likeable, gut clarity around story structure and conflict was great having a weekly deadline [and gave me a good clear nudge when i was slacking off -without shaming] -
TV Pilot Crash Course
This class was informative and encouraging! Dylan was an engaging speaker and an engaged listener, and laid out the foundational elements of writing a tv pilot. I would recommend having an idea for a pilot in mind to get the most out of the exercises done in class.
