​LEARN BASIC STORY STRUCTURE TO FINISH YOUR SHOW
  • ​Learn how to journal to capture your unique voice
  •  Learn how to create scenes with a solid beginning, middle and end from recurring themes from your morning pages
  • Learn how to create monologues or scenes from stories and characters mined from your journal writing.
  • Learn Basic Story Structure
 
This class is ideal for: 
-first time memoir writers
-One Person Show writers


WHEN
2nd Saturday of each month
​11am-2pm (EST)
  • Learn the difference between a well made solo play vs a monologue play
  • Learn how to create monologues from existing stories
  •  Learn how to create multi-character scenes for solo performance


Monthly Payments start at $199 for the LIVE class
$99 Recorded class​​
12 Monthly Classes Package. SALE

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How it Works

When you purchase a 12 month class package, you get access to one Saturday class per month.
Each class is a 3 hour writing class.

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SPECIAL SALE PRICE
If you purchase your package in the next 48 hours, the monthly price is $199.00.

After the sale, the price goes up TO $234 per month for the rest of the year

And $267 in 2033.

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LIVE CLASSES

12 Monthly Classes

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RECORDED CLASSES

12 Monthly Classes
Terms

Special Package rates ($199 per class) are only guaranteed if you complete the package.  If you choose to cancel your package before the 12 months ends, you will be billed at the regular class rate of $266 per month.

Want to try out the class before committing to all 12 Monthly classes?  
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April Yvette Thompson 
is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media.  Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards,  Babylon Fields, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc.  Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty City The Exonerated(w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, etc 
 
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival,  Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony). 

April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop.  Her latest play, Black Lives is in development at NYTW.    April has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe, Maggie Flanigan Studio and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company.  April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts, NYTW and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.
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EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA  and Rutgers University, MFA 


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