Directors and Playwrights Lab

About this event

Dates: October 14th, 2026 – August 31, 2027

Wednesday Evenings 6:00-9:00pm

7108 E Lowry Blvd

* Season 16 Classes Begin Oct. 14th 2026

Visionbox Studio is accepting applications for a Playwrights and Directors lab through Season 16.

The purpose of this new lab is to help emerging playwrights develop new material in a class setting with directors. Early classes will focus on The 5 Questions, a technique for text analysis, and acting and directing taught by Earle Gister at the Yale School of Drama from 1980 to 1999. In early workshops, writers and directors will read a play selected by the group in its entirety, and then do table work to explore detailed analysis to help move writers and directors away from generalized emotional content into the specifics of character, given circumstances, objectives, actions, and perhaps most importantly the understanding of the spine of a play. After this early work, playwrights will be asked to bring in new material in development to read aloud with directors in the room in order to develop that material for potential workshop productions. While Denver has a thriving and growing theatre arts community, and many high-level professional companies, there is almost no graduate-level training in the state, and there are very few resources for emerging playwrights and directors to learn and practice craft.

Limit 4 Directors, 4 Playwrights

Ongoing Classes – $60 per class – go to https://www.visionbox.org/directors-lab to pay

Payment plans and limited scholarships available. Email info@visionbox.org for details.

From VisionBox Studio