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• Why Solo Shows are the Actor's Olympics
• How to turn the stories you tell in everyday life into a solo show
• How to source solo show material from journals
• How to get your solo show produced

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• Have you dreamed about writing a solo show but have no idea where to start? 
  
• Did you know that writing and self-producing your solo show can be a great way to continually be employed as an actor? 
  
• One Person Shows give agents, casting directors, managers and directors a better of idea of how to cast you beyond barrista #3. 
  
• A solo show gives you the chance to learn how to tell story and share your story. 
  
• A solo show allows you to become dozens of different people in a 50 minute show. 
  
• When you write, produce and star in your solo show, you're taking home 3 different paychecks plus a percentage of the house as a writer. 
  
• You get to become all those characters you've dreamed about from Cleopatra to Bridgerton Starlets

In this 90 minute live class, you'll learn
1. How to start writing a solo show
2. The 2 Major Solo Show structures
3. How to tell a well-made story with complex characters

Sample Class

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April Yvette Thompson  is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor and TheDreamUnLocked Founder. 

​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.
EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA  and Rutgers University, MFA  AprilYvetteThompson.com 

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​How to Write a Solo Show
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2 Day Retreat
Recording
12pm-3pm (MOUNTAIN)

THIS CLASS IS OPEN TO EVERYONE
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​You'll Learn:

HOW TO START WRITING

• Learn how to start writing using April's DreamingOutLoud Daily Morning Ritual
  
  STORY GENERATOR
• How to Generate Story Ideas using April's Roshamon Storytelling Technique
  
  
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STORY STRUCTURE

• Basic story structure to organize monologues and scenes into a cohesive solo show
  
  
  

​​​BONUSES

FREE COPY OF THE
12 STEP HOW TO WRITE A SOLO SHOW
($497 VALUE)


​Membership in the exclusive DreamUnLocked Facebook Working client group

Mastermind Private Coaching
April 7 - June 12
​11am-2pm (Mountain)

THIS CLASS IS OPEN TO PAST WRITING CLIENTS IN GOOD STANDING 

OR 

BY INVITATION AFTER COMPLETING THE 2 DAY WRITERS RETREAT

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• Small Group Private Coaching (2-4 students)
  ​Online Classroom​​
  
  HOW TO START WRITING
• Learn how to start writing using April's DreamingOutLoud Daily Morning Ritual
  
  STORY GENERATOR
• How to Generate Story Ideas using April's Roshamon Storytelling Technique
  
  SOLO SHOW STRUCTURE
• Advanced Story Structure for monologues and scenes using April's First Draft Outline
• 2 Major Solo Show Structure
  - Well-made story and
     - Long/Short Form Monologue
  
  CHARACTER CREATION
• Learn how to
  -  research and interview characters
  - create a psychological gesture for characters
  - how to compile a detailed psychological profile and bio for your characters
  
  
  
• Marketing & Monetizing Your Solo Show Blueprint
   - you'll learn how to find audience for your solo show
  - how to book gigs
  - how to create an online following to monetize your solo show as passive income
  
  
  BONUSES
• Purchase the 12 Week Class and get free access to the 2 Day How to Write a Solo Show Retreat
  
  Membership in the exclusive DreamUnLocked Facebook Working client group

GET YOUR FEET WET Solo Show Workshops

This class is open to everyone and the ideal way to commit to a daily writing routine

This is a 12 Week RECORDED Version of the How to Write a Solo Show



You'll Learn: 

TheDreamingOutLoud Daily Morning Ritual

•        How to Start Writing

•  Find Story Ideas
• How to Turn Ideas into well-made story
• How to Create a Story Generator 
  
  You'll leave this class with a solid daily writing routine in place.

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BONUSES

• Membership in the exclusive DreamUnLocked Facebook Working client group

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Watch the free SoloShow Class below

• What is the structure for a Solo Show?"

​Why do you want to write a solo show?

• Where do I find ideas for my solo show?

• How do I Start Writing a Solo Show?

How do I do finish and market my solo show?

How do I create a strong story?
How do I  create empathy?

How do I monetize a solo show?

• How do I figure out the
  
• psychology of the character
• so I can create realistic dialogue
  
• and not just talking head syndrome?

• How do I beat Writers' Block?  
• I'm totally blocked.  

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Only one problem:

​YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START?