Telling your story
This fall, Local Theater Company is partnering with the Boulder Jewish Community Center (JCC) to present a playwriting course, Telling Your Story, that is open to all.
EXCHANGE: A Hub for Learning is the new adult learning program at the Boulder JCC. This program provides educational opportunities for adults to learn for the sake of learning.
Telling Your Story
Instructor: Local Theater Company Co-Artistic Director Nick Chase
Location: all classes will be held at the Boulder JCC (6007 Oreg Ave | Boulder, CO 80303)
Cost: $35
Class 1
Monday, September 30, 2024
10 am - 12 pm MT
Class 2
Monday, October 7, 2024
10am - 12 pm MT
Class 3
Monday, October 14, 2024
10 am - 12 pm MT
About the Course
Telling Your Story is a 3-week class that explores the principles of playwriting. Participants mine their own personal experiences to create original monologues, dialogues, and/or short plays. We build deeper connections between individuals as you hear from one another's own stories and share your own. For 14 years, Local Theater Company has been Boulder's premier new play incubator, developing 61 scripts that have gone on to productions in Boulder and across the country. Scripts range from solo performances like Stories from the Heart created and performed by John Lithgow, to musicals like Discount Ghost Stories to the upcoming production of Stockade by Andrew Rosendorf and Carlyn Aquiline, which captures an often-untold part of WWII history.
About the Instructor, Nick Chase
Nick Chase is a writer/director who began his career writing and staging productions at a number of celebrated downtown New York venues including The Ohio, Galapagos, Fez, and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Following this, he was awarded a yearlong residency at the Tony Award/Pulitzer Prize-winning Public Theater/Joe’s Pub for his critically acclaimed theatrical series, SHELLS. During his tenure, Nick wrote and directed twenty-seven “episodes” of the live series and was featured in The New York Times. Other iterations of SHELLS have been presented on Virgin Voyages, at Local Theater Company, the Friars Club, and the Time Out New York Comedy Editors Showcase. In the fall of 2014, Neil Patrick Harris tapped Nick to write the book for, and associate direct, BURTKA, DAVID, Broadway star David Burtka’s solo performance at 54 Below. The team included veteran Broadway music director Seth Rudetsky. With Local Theater Company, where Nick serves as Co-Artistic Director, he has supported the development of over twenty five new plays, directed multiple world premieres including 237 Virginia Avenue, Pop the Holidays, and the Local Lab 13 workshop of Stockade.
