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
SUMMER 2026 writing classes will be both in person and online
our summer semester of classes will open for registration on friday, may 8 at 1pm.
WRITING FOR THE STAGE
We offer the following in-person classes in the Summer of 2026:
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Instructor: Michael Walkup (Artistic Director, Page 73)
Tuesdays from 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET
at ARTNY Studios South Oxford Space (138 S. Oxford St. BROOKLYN)
Starting June 16Instructor: Gina Femia (Kilroy’s List and Leah Ryan Prize honoree)
Wednesdays from 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET
at ARTNY Studios Midtown (520 8th Avenue)
Starting June 24 -
Instructor: Adam Kraar (Writer, Wild Terrain at EST, Alternating Currents at The Working Theater)
Wednesdays from 5:30pm – 8:30pm ET
at ARTNY Studios South Oxford Space (138 S. Oxford St. BROOKLYN)
Starting July 1
We offer the following online classes in the Summer of 2026:
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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 June 23
Instructor: 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
Zoom
Starting July 1Instructor: Calamity West (Writer, Roundabout/Underground, The Goodman, Williamstown)
Thursdays from 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting July 9 -
Instructor: Stefanie Zadravec (Writer, The Electric Baby at Two River Theatre Company)
Wednesdays from 7:30pm – 10:30pm ET
Zoom
Starting July 1 -
Instructor: Tasha Gordon-Solmon (Writer, Director, and Lyricist; Faculty, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing Program)
Thursdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
Zoom
Starting July 2 -
Instructor: John Gould Rubin (Director, Turn Me Loose Off-Broadway; former Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company)
Wednesdays from 7:00pm – 10:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting June 24 -
Instructor: Caridad Svich (Writer, OBIE Winner for Lifetime Achievement, 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art)
Mondays from 5:00pm – 8:00pm ET
Zoom
Starting June 22
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 June 23