All introductory classes are either 90 min podcasts or 90 min recorded classes
Still on the fence about the Emotional Type 12 Session MasterMind? Get your feet wet with the 1 day Introductory class.
Join any Saturday class in the next 30 days for $199 to see if the MasterMind is right for you
Want to get your feet wet before joining the 12 week MasterMind
Buy the intro class to experience one day of the 12 Week MasterMind
WHAT
Twelve 2 hour Sessions
Plus bi-weekly 15 min office hoursFor a total of 27 hours of private coaching (roughly $118 per hour)
2-4 Clients: Small Group Intensive Coaching
COST
Installment Payment Plan
9 monthly Payments of $355.00
(Please note that the payments continue after the class is finished for 9 months.
WHEN
Sessions Begin
2nd Week in October
2nd Week in March
HOW IT WORKS
There is a private page for your class where you’ll find weekly exercises and homework
If you complete every assignment, by the end of the 12 weeks, you’ll learn how to:
create a rough draft of your script as well as a story outline
how to get the story out of your head and onto the page
how to create fully realized characters developed on your feet
how to create well structured story
how to set up and meet goals for your solo show: get an agent/manager, move into tv and film, passive income,
How to get your show produced a marketing plan in place to build audience and raise money for your story
BONUSClients get a complimentary Discover Session ($750 value) once the mastermind is completed
WHAT
Twelve 2 hour Sessions
Plus weekly 15 min office hoursFor a total of 27 hours of private coaching
2-4 Clients: Small Group Intensive Coaching
WHEN
Sessions Begin
2nd Week in September
2nd Week in February
How it Works
There is a private page for your class where you’ll find weekly exercises and homework
You will receive a reading list before class starts so that we hit the ground running
You will leave with a completed project:
Emotional Type Branding website, reel and one page
OR
A first draft of your script
BONUS
Clients get a complimentary Discovery Session ($750 value) once the mastermind is completed
Free copy of 90 min webinar Double Your Auditions
Meet the Instructor
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, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc.
Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty CityThe Exonerated (w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, Antigone & Light Raise the Roof.
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.
Education: Vassar College & Rutgers University.
AprilYvetteThompson.com
Frequently Asked Questions
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All classes are virtual Zoom classes. You can dial in or log on visually from anywhere in the world
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The easiest way to start is buy the StoryTelling Circle Writers’ Retreat Payment plan for only $340.
You’ll get 10 hours of personal attention because the retreat is limited to 8 writers -
The Story Telling Circle begins with learning story strucure by sourcing your oral memories first. Taking advantage of your natural storytelling gifts that you use in real life to communicate what you need, love and dream about.
The way you speak is your writers’ voice in the circle. And when your writer’s voice has the attention of a rapt audience, stories fall from your lips and onto the page effortlessly
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
April@thedreamunlocked.com
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We offer payment plans to make joining the circle easily. As well as PayPal Pay later.
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Fun. Like that one aunt that is brilliantly unfettered in her opinions and interests. Well travelled and free of heart, April is the teacher who wants you to take your stories out into the world and transform your life. Making a living from your stories and creating a life that matches your dreams is the ultimate goal. You know, the stuff no one teaches you in school. We don’t want to just take your money. We want to give you the tools to change your life.