Name: Enter Stage Write: Crafting Short Plays
Start: 2026-11-07
End: 2026-11-07

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From Chekov to Mamet, the one-act play remains a challenging and powerful way to tell a story. Learn how to structure your story using setting, characters, and internal/external dynamics. Using specific exercises and mining your own experience, you’ll apply classical principles to form an intense moment in time and space. Whether you’re aiming for two pages or ten, you’ll make it happen using dialogue, action, and characters in crisis to create a real-live play. Explore and experiment with this short dramatic form in an accessible, hands-on, and supportive workshop environment. For all experience levels.

In addition to acting off-Broadway and in regional theatre, **Paula Marchese** was a founding member in the New York and Los Angeles wings of Ensemble Studio Theatre, a company devoted to the nurturing of new playwrights. In Los Angeles Paula co-starred on numerous television shows including *Newhart, Falcon Crest* and *General Hospital*. On the other side of the camera she worked in production on educational films for McGraw-Hill and at NBC as a story analyst. After returning to western New York, Paula worked at Bristol Valley Theatre, the JCC and Blackfriars. She co-authored the book for “Depression: the Musical,” a sometimes comic, often poignant look at one man’s life-long struggle with chronic depression. Her play, “The Ring,” was selected for the Geva Regional Playwrights Festival. Marchese serves as Dramaturge for Hamm & Clov Stage Company in New York and has taught acting and playwriting at SUNY Brockport.

**This is an in-person event held at Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue.**

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Enter Stage Write: Crafting Short Plays

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