Exploring the Craft of Scriptwriting

Harbor Repertory Theater is launching a

workshop for writers who want to work on their art.

The workshop will focus on script writing, but other writers are welcome.

The workshop will include:

  • in-person meetings every other week Starting October 2nd, 2021

  • regular writing exercises

  • submission and analysis of personal writing projects

  • actors reading your work

  • discussion of various tools and techniques

  • discussion of writing projects and opportunities

Workshop will require:

  • regular attendance

  • regular submissions of assignment/exercise work

  • regular submission of your own personal project work

  • reading the submissions from other writers as requested

  • engagement in the discussions

  • willingness to evaluate your own and other writers' work with honesty and respect

  • an annual contribution of $300 to Harbor Repertory Theater

This workshop is part writer's group,

part book club, part writing techniques class.

How do I join?

Joining is easy

  • Step 1

    • You submit a short application and a writing sample [here]

  • Step 2

    • We talk about it (you interview me, I interview you - we make sure this makes sense)
      via phone call, zoom, or preferably in person over coffee or something.

  • Step 3

    • You receive an invitation to join the group

  • Step 4

    • You make an annual $300 or semiannual $150 donation to Harbor Rep.

  • Step 5

    • You start attending the workshops and getting the reading lists.

A typical month with the

Harbor Writing Workshop

a Saturday morning

Workshop Meeting (at 10am at the Minneapolis Central Library Downtown)

  • We will discuss any writing projects

  • We will discuss selected submissions

  • We will discuss crafts, tools, techniques, and theories related to the submissions

  • We will get a new exercise assignment

then on Wednesday

  • You submit the exercise assignment

  • You submit any personal writing projects

the next Saturday

  • The submission reading list is posted (note that some items on the reading list may be from older submissions, some from more recent
    submissions... it just depends)

  • You start reading the selected submissions

  • If something you submitted is not selected you can schedule a one-on-one dramaturgical discussion with me about it

then the Saturday after that

Workshop meeting

  • We will discuss any writing projects

  • We will have actors (skilled and experienced with new work) read the selected submissions

  • We will discuss selected submissions

  • We will discuss crafts, tools, techniques, and theories related to the submissions

  • We will get a new exercise assignment

then on the following Wednesday

  • You submit the exercise assignment

  • You submit any personal writing projects

then following Saturday

  • The next submission reading list is posted (note that some items on the reading list may be from older submissions, some from more recent submissions... it just depends)

  • You start reading these selected submissions

and so on...

Who am I?

I am Keith Bridges, I was the founder and Artistic Director of Charter Theater in Washington DC back in the late 90s -early 2000s. I am now in Minnesota and run the small non-profit production company called Harbor Repertory Theater.

I am an award-winning director with over 20 years of experience working with new plays and their authors.

An award-winning scriptwriter and playwright with dozens of productions in my history. I am passionate about very few things, one of them is scriptwriting – both my own and other people’s.

I have developed this workshop to be the workshop I always wish I could find. I hope you can join us!