CA State Thespian Festival 2026

In the words of the immortal Nike ad, "Just do it." Writing may not exactly be sports, but the best way to strengthen your writing muscles is to use them. A lot. In this workshop, we'll keep moving, brainstorming ideas and characters and creating scenes and monologues of all kinds. By the time you leave, you'll have broken one heck of a writerly sweat, and you'll have a pad or gadget filled with writing ideas that you can build upon.

So you have an idea. Great! But how do you turn it into a play? Bring it to this workshop and find out how. Not only will you learn the building blocks of play creation—character, story and setting—but you'll learn the questions you should be asking and answering to push past your playwriting obstacles and help others with theirs. By the time you leave, you'll have a play that's ready for you to write and a set of tools that will help you with the next play and the one after that.