Check out opportunities at NHSI to hone your craft all year long!
Playwriting Workshop
- Fall Session: October 20-24, 2025
- Winter Session: Dates TBD
- Spring Session: Dates TBD
6:00pm-7:30pm Central Time – synchronous, daily Zoom sessions
Tuition: $250
NHSI Playwriting Faculty Ian Merrigan will guide students through a fast paced, online playwriting process. Email correspondence will begin about a week before the workshop with guided brainstorming assignments and material to read. We will then hit the ground writing and finish our 5-day intensive with a first draft of a 10-minute play. Schedule will include one 60 to 90-minute group Zoom session per day, optional office hours with the instructor for additional feedback and notes, and committed, personal writing time.
This workshop is open to all high school students, freshmen through seniors.
Writing Comedy Workshop
January 4 – February 8, 2026 (Six Weeks)
Sundays 12:30pm-2:00pm Central Time – synchronous, weekly Zoom sessions
Tuition: $400
In this 6-week playwriting class, writers will explore comedy techniques by crafting original monologues and scenes. Delve into comedic styles, such as situational comedy, rom-com, and farce, with Laura Schellhardt, head of the undergraduate playwriting program at Northwestern University.
This workshop is open to all high school students, freshmen through seniors.
TV Pilot Workshop
January 17 – February 21 (Six Weeks)
Saturdays 12:00pm-1:30pm Central Time – synchronous, weekly Zoom sessions
Tuition: $400
This winter Playwriting Faculty Member John Corwin will offer a unique online experience for students interested in television and writing! Ever had have an idea for a TV series? That’s great! Here’s where you can learn how to turn that idea into a script and long-running series. Email correspondence with your instructor will begin two weeks before programming starts with guided brainstorming assignments, shows to watch and materials to read in order to learn the industry standards of genre, format and structure. Over the six session workshop, students watch and discuss pilots from popular, acclaimed shows, analyze the scripts, and discover what makes the show work, how they succeed and how they fail. Students will then take what they’ve learned and apply that to their own ideas, assembling an outline for the pilot and even writing the teaser and first act.
This program is open to all high school students, freshmen through seniors