How to Write a Solo Show
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​How to Write a Solo Show
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2 Day Retreat
July 22-23
11AM-2PM (MOUTAIN)

​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
($597 VALUE)

*April's How to Market & Monetize Your Solo Show Blueprint

​Membership in the exclusive DreamUnLocked Facebook Working client group

Mastermind Private Coaching
July 22 - Oct 7
​11am-2pm (Mountain)

• 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

How to start writing a Solo Workshop
Sunday July 22
9am-11am (Mountain)

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.

How to Market & Monetize a Solo Show

Sunday July 23rd
​11am-2pm​

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


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BONUSES

• Membership in the exclusive DreamUnLocked Facebook Working client group

SHOP MASTERMIND
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CLASS POLICIES

The client understands: 

How We Will Work
To maximize our the goals of our work, all class participants are to log on to each class 5 mins prior to the start of class. 

That all homework is due 24 hours before the start of each class.

If a client is going to be absent, they should notify April 24 hours prior to the start of class.  All homework is still due 24 hours prior to class.  Should the client miss more than two classes in sequence, they will be required to schedule a make up session with April in order to continue the class.  The client will be billed for this session. 


There is no refund or exchange policy. 
Classes are small and focused on lots of 1:1 attention.  The client understands that once they register for a class,  their follow-through is required in order to maintain the integrity of the class.   

In short, don't quit on yourself and we won't quit on you. 


Credits
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Credits are valid for one year from the date of the client's last coaching session/class. After which the credit is forfeit.  Credits are issued under extenuating circumstances and at the discretion of the Instructor.

Installment Payment Plans
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This contract is valid for all private coaching sessions and classes with April Yvette Thompson.  Payments are made via the purchase buttons on the website only or via PayPal.   No cash, checks or money orders will be accepted. 
 
All Coaching session packages and classes have the installment payment option.

The client understands that should they cancel the payment plan before the full price of the class is paid, they forfeit to the right to any future payment plans for TheDreamUnLocked classes. 

 
​Late Payments
Installment payments are automated monthly.  If a payment doesn't go through on the due date, there is a $50.00 late fee added to your balance which is due immediately.  If the account is not brought up to date within 24 hours, there is a daily $25 late fee added for each day that the account is late.

All payments are non‐refundable and non‐transferable.


Homework & Due Dates
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You will receive homework assignments due dates via google calendar email or on the class members only forum which you should check daily.  All due dates  are by 5pm (EST).  

If you miss any of these deadlines, and homework is not turned in by deadline,  April reserves the right to discontinue the package or class immediately.  

Get a taste of what it's like working with April.  
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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?

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

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