Learn how to create compelling dialogue for the stage! This course will give you specific tools with which to craft your dialogue, so that it illuminates character, enhances dramatic progression, and engages your audiences in a more active way. Through class exercises, we’ll explore the challenges of writing dialogue such as exposition, on-the-nose, overwriting, repetition, rhythm, and subtext. This course will provide an extensive dialogue development toolbox from which to draw upon for the duration of your playwriting career. You will be able to apply the exercises from this course to any play that you write, enabling you to know and understand your dialogue more fully.