WRITING classes
Welcome to the ESPA Writing Department!
“The content of the classes is nothing short of extraordinary. Receiving feedback from teachers who are working theater artists has tranformed me from a fledgling to an emerging artist in a very short period of time. It is the ESPA community that makes it unlike any other performing arts school.”
- ESPA Writing Student
SPRING 2026 writing classes will be both in person and online
WRITING FOR THE STAGE
We offer the following in-person classes in the Spring of 2026:
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Instructor: Gina Femia (Kilroy’s List and Leah Ryan Prize honoree)
Mondays from 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET
at ARTNY Studios Midtown (520 8th Avenue)
Starting February 23Instructor: Iraisa Ann Reilly (Writer and Actor, A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de Los Reyes Magos, 1998 at EST; Faculty, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing Program)
Wednesdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
at ARTNY Studios South Oxford Space (138 S. Oxford St. BROOKLYN)
Starting April 1 -
Instructor: Mêlisa Annis (Writer, Director, and Dramaturg; Faculty, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing Program)
Thursdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
at ARTNY Studios Midtown (520 8th Avenue)
Starting March 12
We offer the following online classes in the Spring of 2026:
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Instructor: Caridad Svich (Writer, OBIE Winner for Lifetime Achievement, 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art)
Tuesdays from 5:00pm – 8:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 24Instructor: Calamity West (Writer, Roundabout/Underground, The Goodman, Williamstown)
Thursdays from 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 26 -
Instructor: Stefanie Zadravec (Writer, The Electric Baby at Two River Theatre Company)
Wednesdays from 7:30pm – 10:30pm ET
Zoom
Starting March 4 -
Instructor: Tasha Gordon-Solmon (Writer, Director, and Lyricist; Faculty, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing Program)
Thursdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 26 -
Instructor: Matthew Paul Olmos (Writer, a home what howls at Steppenwolf, so go the ghost of mexico, part one at La Mama)
Tuesdays from 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 24 -
Instructor: Stefanie Zadravec (Writer, The Electric Baby at Two River Theatre Company)
Mondays from 7:30pm – 10:30pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 23 -
Instructor: John Gould Rubin (Director, Turn Me Loose Off-Broadway; former Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company)
Tuesdays from 7:00pm – 10:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 24 -
Instructor: Winter Miller (Writer, In Darfur at The Public Theater, No One Is Forgotten at Rattlestick)
Tuesdays from 5:00pm – 8:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 24Instructor: Megan Carter (Creative Producer and Dramaturg, former Producing Director of SITI Company)
Thursdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
Zoom
Starting February 26
WORKSHOPS
We offer the following online workshop in the Spring of 2026:
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Instructor: Erin Daley (Artistic Director, Primary Stages)
Thursday, March 26 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET
Zoom