Script Analysis

Have you ever looked over a script and had no idea how to get “in.” Or if you did have an idea, you had no idea if it was backed up by the text? You are not alone.

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Course Overview

Script Analysis provides you with a solid, practical, and applicable step-by-step methodology to help figure out what is on the page. You will learn how to bring the text to life, with precision, accuracy, and intelligence. After taking this course, you will never again feel lost when approaching a text.

This is a highly interactive class that relies on participation. You will learn a methodology to script analysis that will make you director- and playwright-proof, and will help you work independently as an actor.

Plays we analyze in Script Analysis include: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hamlet, Art, A Doll House, ‘night Mother, Desire Under the Elms, Oleanna, and more.

Prerequisites: None, 2nd Year Conservatory students (Fundamentals, Essentials, and Complete) are required to take this class

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Meet Your Instructors

Pandora Scooter is an award winning playwright and spoken word artist. Her solo shows I Am Enough and OutWordlyFabulous toured the nation to 45+ cities in 30 states in 2011 and 2015. In 2017, her feminist punk rock musical won Best Musical at the Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC’s only queer theatre festival.

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Maya Patridge is an actor and educator based in Brooklyn. Along with her work at TKS, Maya teaches acting and improv classes at New York Film Academy and Treasure Trunk Theatre.

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