Get Your Idea Ready for Primetime with TV Screenwriting Classes at The Ridgefield Playhouse

Do you have a great idea for a TV series? Is it your personal story? Have you always wanted to write a screenplay? Whatever it is, here's your chance. The Ridgefield Playhouse is offering a screenwriting class for adults with award winning screenwriter Katie Torpey. Students will learn how to turn a story idea into a well-told, formatted screenplay that they can sell to Hollywood! Students will spend 8 weeks learning the basics of screenwriting, storytelling, story structure, script format, theme, plot, characterization, dialogue, conflict and genre.

The objective of this course is to give each student the tools and confidence to be able to write a screenplay from start to finish. Each student will leave the class with a fully developed story, a detailed outline, and for some, the first ACT of a screenplay (17-30 pages). Classes will meet on Thursdays from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., November 3 - December 29.

Katie Torpey is an award-winning Screenwriter / Filmmaker with an MFA from UCLA School of Film and Television. She has sold several screenplays, written for television, and worked for numerous studios and networks. Her original screenplay The Perfect Man was released in theaters in June 2005 starring Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear and Chris Noth. The following year, her romantic comedy, "On the Other Side," hit theaters in Bollywood and was a big hit. She wrote and directed the independent film Truth About Kerry shot in Ireland starring Stana Katic (Castle), which was released in April 2012. She also co-created Mother Up! an animated TV series about motherhood starring Eva Longoria. It was one of Hulu's first original tv shows and premiered in 2013-14 and ran for 13 episodes on Hulu and City TV in Canada. Her latest screenplay Spaghetti Park is in pre-production. Katie is currently developing several TV shows, a digital writing product for students, and adapting her memoir into a screenplay to direct. Katie lives in CT on a lake and loves giving back to the community.

To register for classes, call or visit the box office at The Ridgefield Playhouse, 203.438.5795. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a not-for-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT; ridgefieldplayhouse.org.