Write Your Own Play! Super Silly and Serious Plays

Completed by 75 learners

Ages 7-12

Live Group Class

Inspire each other and write your own unexpected story!

Michelle Pelletier

Average rating:

4.8

Number of reviews:

(94 reviews)

Live video meetings

3x per week, 2 weeks

6-14 learners per class

45 min

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What’s included

6 live meetings

4 hrs 30 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

You are waiting for the ancient amazons to arrive in their invisible plane to deliver brownies for your birthday party. But what happens to them? You live on Mars. You have a bad cold and your best-friends, the amoebas from Saturn are flying in for a sleep-over. You can't find the kleenex. What do you do? Your chinese food restaurant gets spun back in time. So you go to Las Vegas to win a fortune and find your way home. 

You write the play. The class finishes with a performance of the work in progress for friends and family.

 Course Goals:

1. to trust their creative impulses will lead them into a gold mine 
2. to voice their ideas
3. to discern the juiciest and richest course of action from the flat safe choice
4. to collaborate and inspire each other

Why would a student want to take the course?

It is so much fun! The end result, your play, gives you a wonderful sense of accomplishment and sense of self, your voice out there in the world. Our last class includes a reading of your new play, time permitting.

Learning Goals

Students will learn which ideas have zing and which are duds waiting to be transformed into personal gold. They will share their writing and critique others' stories with kindness and positivity.

Other Details

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Michelle Pelletier

Joined October, 2017

4.8

94reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

Director, Michelle Pelletier has taught and/ or directed at American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, California Theatre Center in Alaska, Sonoma County Repertory, Santa Clara University, The Vallejo Ballet Conservatory, Sonoma Ballet Conservatory, West County Theatre Arts Guild, and Sonoma Charter School. Michelle is a graduate of American Conservatory Theatre and Tamalpa Institute. Her acting resume includes theatre and television. Michelle was the Founding Director of the Creation Conservatory which won a 2001 Bohemian award: “Best place to let your kids expressive your creative self.”