Welcome to The Drawing Board
A Lab for Playwrights, Screenwriters, and Actors
The Drawing Board helps writers in various stages of development to move forward
through table reads, workshops, and staged readings.
A Note from the TDB Hosts....
Hi everyone,
We missed very much having our monthly reading on Monday night and we want to reach out to all of you and connect.
The hosts had a virtual meeting yesterday, and we talked about the challenges of finding a creative space in ourselves right now. Perhaps you have found this to be a productive time, or maybe you are taking a much needed pause and stepping back.
In the interest of staying connected, we’d love to hear from all of you via our Facebook page and/or Instagram.
Here is the FB link: TheDrawingBoard FB page
Instagram link: the.drawing.board.nyc
(please keep posts on these pages focused on your work or your process)
Writers
What are you working on? How is your creative process going?
Feel free to share a video talking about your work, if you’d like.
If you live with other people, what is your strategy for carving out space and time to focus? Or are you able to pull a Charles Dickens and work at the kitchen table with kids running around (real question)?
Actors
What are your strategies and practices for staying connected to your work?
Again, feel free to make a short video for the group.
Directors/Producers
Are you thinking about new projects, or making headway on existing work?
Everyone, feel free to share on our FB page any helpful articles about keeping your creative spark going during this difficult time.
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Or, again, perhaps none of these questions apply and you are finding some stillness, and letting yourself drift -- that may be the most productive way to refuel our creative imaginations.
We also discussed hosting a reading virtually, via Zoom or some other service. Obviously, this would come with its share of complications and limitations--for the actors participating, for the audience listening, and for the writer in hearing their work aloud. We want to make sure that we’re still offering actors that same playground to explore and create, and serving the writer by hearing their work and getting helpful feedback.
Perhaps down the road, this could be an option, but we also wanted to see if this was something our members would be interested in. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this as well.
We want to let you all know we are thinking of you, and we’ll continue to work on ways the group can stay connected while we are all staying home.
Much love,
Brady, Dan, Diana and Linda
Hi everyone,
We missed very much having our monthly reading on Monday night and we want to reach out to all of you and connect.
The hosts had a virtual meeting yesterday, and we talked about the challenges of finding a creative space in ourselves right now. Perhaps you have found this to be a productive time, or maybe you are taking a much needed pause and stepping back.
In the interest of staying connected, we’d love to hear from all of you via our Facebook page and/or Instagram.
Here is the FB link: TheDrawingBoard FB page
Instagram link: the.drawing.board.nyc
(please keep posts on these pages focused on your work or your process)
Writers
What are you working on? How is your creative process going?
Feel free to share a video talking about your work, if you’d like.
If you live with other people, what is your strategy for carving out space and time to focus? Or are you able to pull a Charles Dickens and work at the kitchen table with kids running around (real question)?
Actors
What are your strategies and practices for staying connected to your work?
Again, feel free to make a short video for the group.
Directors/Producers
Are you thinking about new projects, or making headway on existing work?
Everyone, feel free to share on our FB page any helpful articles about keeping your creative spark going during this difficult time.
---------------------
Or, again, perhaps none of these questions apply and you are finding some stillness, and letting yourself drift -- that may be the most productive way to refuel our creative imaginations.
We also discussed hosting a reading virtually, via Zoom or some other service. Obviously, this would come with its share of complications and limitations--for the actors participating, for the audience listening, and for the writer in hearing their work aloud. We want to make sure that we’re still offering actors that same playground to explore and create, and serving the writer by hearing their work and getting helpful feedback.
Perhaps down the road, this could be an option, but we also wanted to see if this was something our members would be interested in. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this as well.
We want to let you all know we are thinking of you, and we’ll continue to work on ways the group can stay connected while we are all staying home.
Much love,
Brady, Dan, Diana and Linda
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Many of the scripts we've read go on to win Awards in Competitions and Writing Festivals. Congrats to our TDB Writers!
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Want to get on our mailing list? Participate in a reading? Contact Us! Or email us at thedrawingboardnyc@gmail.com
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Many of the scripts we've read go on to win Awards in Competitions and Writing Festivals. Congrats to our TDB Writers!
Read our Inclusion Statement
Find out about Submitting A Script. Fill out a SUBMISSION FORM.
Want to get on our mailing list? Participate in a reading? Contact Us! Or email us at thedrawingboardnyc@gmail.com
Find us on facebook
Follow us on Instagram
