SCREENWRITING BOOTCAMP

Tuesdays, 7PM – 10PM
ALL LEVELS

Do you have a TV pilot or screenplay you’ve been wanting to write in a creative, supportive environment? This is the perfect screenwriting workshop to launch you towards your goal. Over 10 weeks, participants will focus on the development of an original script – starting with a logline, working on character development and arcs, writing a one-page treatment, three-page outline, writing the first 10 pages – which are all key elements to your script! In virtual workshop sessions, participants will receive feedback from their instructor and classmates, as well as discuss reading assignments and pre-recorded lectures.

Instructor: Cressandra Thibodeaux is an East Coast born screenwriter, who runs a microcinema in Houston called 14 Pews. She currently is in development of new TV show – Unholy Childhood. Cressandra’s TV pilots have garnered her The Disney/ABC TV Writing Fellowship, Fox Diversity TV Writing Program Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Her recent feature screenplay, The Hanging Tree was awarded the quarterfinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships.  Cressandra has an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and a BA from UT Austin in English.

Required reading is:
Save The Cat! Writes for TV, by Jamie Nash
Write It, Pitch It, Sell Your Screenplay, by DMA/Donna Michelle Anderson
The Screenwriter\’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script, by David Trottier