Write Like Shakespeare

YOUR FACE HERE!Are you in love with verse drama?  Have you ever wondered, "Where have all the iambic pentameter plays gone?"  Are you a lover of all things Shakespeare (or Sophocles or Moliere)?

Then come join Emily C. A. Snyder for a SIX WEEK INTENSIVE CLASS to learn how to write like Shakespeare.

Whether you've already written a journal full of sonnets, or you're just entering the world of purple prose, this is the perfect class to learn techniques, tricks, and secrets that make verse drama the number one most produced form in the Western World.  By the end of the six weeks, students will have completed the first draft of a 3-10 minute iambic pentameter play or scene.

Please be advised: A maximum of SIX students will be accepted for this course.

Where: The Space on White, 81 White Street, NY, NY 10013

Time: Monday nights from 7:30-9:00

Dates: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5, 12

Cost: One-time Intensive Rate $175/six weeks

Contact: writelikeshakespeare (at) gmail (dot) com

About the Instructor:

Emily C. A. Snyder is an accomplished playwright and director, whose own five act iambic pentameter play, Cupid and Psyche, the third of the Love and Death Trilogy, premiered in Boston in 2009.  Her published plays - which have been produced throughout the United States, and internationally from Christchurch, New Zealand to Dublin, Ireland - are available through Playscripts, Inc.

Snyder studied John Barton's approach to verse drama with the Theatre-in-England/Shakespeare School in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, England, under the direction of former Royal Shakespeare Company actors.  There, she had the great fortune to play Rosalind from As You Like It just steps away from Shakespeare's birthplace!  Back in America, she studied Kristen Linklater's vocal and emotional approach to the text from Maureen Shea at Emerson College, where Snyder was glad to play scene studies as Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Gertrude (Hamlet), and Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream).


Since then, Snyder has directed most of Shakespeare's major works, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest and many others.  In 2006, she founded her own summer Shakespeare company, Gaudete Academy, which combined the scholarly approach to verse drama with her own kinaesthetic sensibilities.  She has been a much sought after guest lecturer on these techniques, speaking throughout the northeast, including Emerson College and the New England Festival Conference.