Writing for the Stage and Screen
​with a Social Voice

Aspiring playwrights, screenwriters, and composer/lyricists will explore the process of creating an original work that could stage a change. Topics will include: 
  • Finding a story to tell 
  • Clearing source material 
  • Structuring your story 
  • Assembling a creative team
  • Getting published/produced 

Presented by....

Jim Hoare, Executive VP at Theatrical Rights Worldwide, has presented workshops across the USA and UK, and in 2011 received the New York State Theatre Education Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. A member of the Advisory Board for the Educational Theatre Foundation, Jim is also the author of Your High School Improv Show Playbook (Theatrefolk, 2019) and Your School Theatre Director’s Playbook (TRW Plays, 2022). He was recently inducted into the EdTA Hall of Fame.
TRW Musicals: Along with The Addams Family, Bright Star, and Big Fish, new school releases include On Your Feet, The Prom, and The Olympians.

TRW Plays: Representing writers of thought-provoking, socially and culturally relevant stories, TRW Plays brings a diverse collection of new, empowering, funny, and important titles to all stages.
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by
Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts
and Hauppauge Public Schools.

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Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at Long Island Community Foundation, The New York Community Trust 
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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