It’s November 8th, 2016 at an election-night party at the home of Vladimir Putin...

written by Amy Crider

 Starring

Jeff Broitman

Baird Brutscher

Brad Potts

and

Pete Blatchford

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Award-winning playwright Amy Crider continues her lecture series with: The Inciting Incident.

A monologue inspired by Dracula, performed by Continuous Dream ensemble member Baird Brutscher.

Sympathetic characters: do they have to be sympathetic? And what makes them so?

Short plays: today you'll hear a fun writing exercise I learned from the famous Second City, with guest Pete Blatchford.

Great expectations: what expectations are you raising in the mind of your audience? Do you fulfill them, or subvert them?

Contains spoilers.

In Part Three we look at what the characters need and know versus the playwright and the audience, by discussing Harold Pinter's Betrayal.

Today's topic: Conflict! With four writing exercises.

A series of short lectures about playwriting by award-winning writer Amy Crider.