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.