WHEN
Weekly private coaching group of 2-4 people
Saturday Mornings
WHAT
You'll learn how to:
- Identify your emotional chord for an audition and how to use it to create a fully realized character and a solid
- Fool-proof 30 minute audition prep routine
- Deliver a competitive, truthful, moment-to-moment audition that will move you from callback queen to working actor
How Does It Work?
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With guided exercises and assignments that will get you away from your desk and seeking adventures to write about, TheDreamingOutLoud WritersTechnique is a joyous celebration of everything you've learned and conquered in this lifetime. It's about learning to listen for the story your heart wants to tell and just recording what you're hearing. That's all writing is...it's simple because the story is already within you. We're just mining for that gold. April guides you every step of the way with live and recorded assignments. She will walk you through each exercise, answering questions, giving you feedback and space to do rewrites. Because the DreamUnLocked specializes in Boutique coaching, classes will always be small so there's lots of hands on attention. |
Juan Francisco Villa talks about how he went from highly trained underpaid theatre actor to a award-winning, actor/writer/producer triple threat using April's DreamingOutLoud Writer's Technique |
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How to Write a Solo Show
Introduction to the 12 Week Solo Show Class
New clients must take the Introductory 1 month Coaching package in order to qualify for the 12 Week class |
For FIRST TIME WRITERS
Recorded Version of the 12 Week LIVE class
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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.
EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA and Rutgers University, MFA
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How do I do rewrites? |
How do I create a strong story? |
I have tiny slips of paper with ideas or stories
all over the place.
How do I put all my scenes together to create a cohesive story?
- If I write about my family,
- they will be pissed
- 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 start writing?
- I'm totally blocked.
You know you're born to do solo work
and you know you have a story to tell
How do I make all the characters
including myself relatable?
Only one problem:
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START?
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START?
So what parts of you believe you're not ready or able to write a solo show?
What parts of you believe that no one will care?
Let's excavate that belief system because it's getting in your way...
What do you believe to be true about
yourself as a writer and performer?
What beliefs are you holding onto
that are no longer serving you?
How might these beliefs be
standing in the way of you starting,
writing and finishing your damn solo show?
yourself as a writer and performer?
What beliefs are you holding onto
that are no longer serving you?
How might these beliefs be
standing in the way of you starting,
writing and finishing your damn solo show?
- Virtual Online Class
- 6 Weeks Every Saturday
10am-12pm (EST)
- Enrollment in this class is open to all
- Weeks 1: How to Generate Raw Story
Week 2: How to Organize raw content into cohesive stories - Week 3: How to Create Character
Week 4: How to Create a solid solo play structure
Week 5: Produce Rough Draft of for 15 pages - Week 6: Perform excerpts from your solo show
- SCRIPT
- Virtual Self-Driven Class
Login, watch recorded masterclasses and work at your own pace
- Enrollment in this class is open to all
- Weeks 1: How to Generate Raw Story
Week 2: How to Organize raw content into cohesive stories - Week 3: How to Create Character
Week 4: How to Create a solid solo play structure
Week 5: Produce Rough Draft of for 15 pages - Week 6: Perform excerpts from your solo show
- Week 6 will culminate in an Showcase of excerpts from your script
- 6-10 Students per section SO YOU GET COACHING TAILORED TO YOUR SCRIPT
CLASS BONUSES
Copy of April's 16 Hour Focus, Finish & Fund Your Script webinar
A 1:1 Private Coaching Session with April
Installment plans
What April's Clients are saying about joining Team April
Now, remember the laws of attraction...
what you believe is what comes to pass
what you focus is on is what you end up doing
So if your focus is on why you can't write
then guess, what?
You won't write
If your focus is on what other people will think
even before you've started writing,
then guess what
you won't write,
you'll just keep complaining about people not liking something
THAT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN WRITTEN YET
Now say that out loud 3 times and see what kind of sense that makes?
You're giving your story away before you even get started...
Focus on what you do have:
an idea.
That's all a story is...
an idea...
The answer to all of these questions before you solve a problem, you have to believe you have the power to solve a problem.
Have you done everything within your power to make yourself a viable business investment because that's what it is when an agent/manager signs you.?
So what's your focus?
What you don't have?
Or what you want?
If what you want is success, then you have to start creating opportunities for success.
Your inner reality...
or what you believe to be true in your heart
is actually what creates the outer reality
if it's strong, it will manifest a clear, confident, ready to kick ass professional who folks will want to hire.
Have you stated your intention to write a solo show publicly?
Have you created a FB Page for your show, an instagram page, a utube channel?
What are you waiting for?
You only need an idea, sharing it with the world will get you closer to the idea, plus it will give you a place to try out stories and styles of storytelling.
If not, let's work on the mindset that got you thinking you don't have the power.
Every step you take a step towards your dreams, is an act of self love
and fuel for manifesting your dreams
These are all things completely within you power to make happen...you have the power to change your outer reality...by making small changes that add up to huge progress and growth...
But first you need to believe you have to power to create forward moving change in your life.
That's what brings courage, skill, success...
actively manifesting your dreams...
Actively taking steps on your own behalf that get you closer to your dreams...
Today, we 're going to talk about the very first step
It's where it all begins....
what you believe is what comes to pass
what you focus is on is what you end up doing
So if your focus is on why you can't write
then guess, what?
You won't write
If your focus is on what other people will think
even before you've started writing,
then guess what
you won't write,
you'll just keep complaining about people not liking something
THAT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN WRITTEN YET
Now say that out loud 3 times and see what kind of sense that makes?
You're giving your story away before you even get started...
Focus on what you do have:
an idea.
That's all a story is...
an idea...
The answer to all of these questions before you solve a problem, you have to believe you have the power to solve a problem.
Have you done everything within your power to make yourself a viable business investment because that's what it is when an agent/manager signs you.?
So what's your focus?
What you don't have?
Or what you want?
If what you want is success, then you have to start creating opportunities for success.
- What do you have absolute control over right now as it relates to your writing?
- What could you do right now that is within your power to solve to get you one step closer to your goal?
Your inner reality...
or what you believe to be true in your heart
is actually what creates the outer reality
if it's strong, it will manifest a clear, confident, ready to kick ass professional who folks will want to hire.
Have you stated your intention to write a solo show publicly?
Have you created a FB Page for your show, an instagram page, a utube channel?
What are you waiting for?
You only need an idea, sharing it with the world will get you closer to the idea, plus it will give you a place to try out stories and styles of storytelling.
If not, let's work on the mindset that got you thinking you don't have the power.
Every step you take a step towards your dreams, is an act of self love
and fuel for manifesting your dreams
These are all things completely within you power to make happen...you have the power to change your outer reality...by making small changes that add up to huge progress and growth...
But first you need to believe you have to power to create forward moving change in your life.
That's what brings courage, skill, success...
actively manifesting your dreams...
Actively taking steps on your own behalf that get you closer to your dreams...
Today, we 're going to talk about the very first step
It's where it all begins....
CHECK OUT AN EXCERPT FROM
APRIL'S HIT OFF-BROADWAY SOLO SHOW,
"LIBERTY CITY"
APRIL ALSO DISCUSSES HER
DREAMINGOUTLOUD TECHNIQUE
WHICH HELPED HER WRITE HER FIRST PLAY
We'll be talking about this quite a bit in today's class, so dig in...
What to do when you can't hear the character's voice
#soloshowproblems
It's OK
to start
writing
even if
you don't
have a clear
idea of what
you're going
to write
Want a step by step guide for how to write a solo show ?
12 Step How to Write a Solo Show
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When does the course start and finish?
Classes begin August 3rd 10am-12pm online via Zoom meetings. This class will be recorded and loaded to your members only class page. The recorded course never ends! It yours to keep forever.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us within the first 7 days and we will give you a full refund.