US Comedy Expert Presents Script To Screen Seminar

US Comedy Expert Presents Script To Screen Seminars

Script to Screen presents two seminars with renowned US comedy expert Steve Kaplan as part of our Te Ao Marama Creative Development Series 2010. Kaplan will run his 2-day Comedy Intensive in Auckland before travelling South to present a 1-day Romantic Comedy Seminar in Christchurch.

2-day Comedy Intensive: Friday / Saturday 2 / 3 July, Auckland; 1-day Romantic Comedy Seminar: Sunday 4 July, Christchurch

Steve Kaplan is the most highly sought-after comedy expert in the US. In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities, Steve Kaplan created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. He regularly serves as a consultant and script doctor to such companies as Dreamworks, Disney, HBO, Paramount and Touchstone and has worked with many writers including Peter Tolan (Analyze This, Finding Amanda), writer and producer David Crane (Friends, Joey, The Class), writer/producer Tracy Poust (Ugly Betty, Will & Grace), Michael Patrick King (The Comeback, Sex and The City, Will & Grace), David Ives (All In The Timing) and Will Scheffer (Big Love).

Comedy Intensive outline

“I wrote…my best, funniest sketches thanks, in no small part, to the lessons I learned from Steve Kaplan” – David Fury, Emmy-winning writer/producer (Lost, 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

“Steve Kaplan was a very important influence on me as a writer. Many of his techniques for analysing a comedy scene I still use to this day” – Steve Skrovan, screenwriter (Everybody Loves Raymond)

2-day comedy intensive, July 2 & 3 Auckland: $220, $160 concession* book now online

1-day Romantic Comedy Seminar, July 4 Christchurch: $110, $80 concession*, book now online

If you cannot pay by credit card email info@script-to-screen.co.nz or call us on 09 360 5400 to make an alternative arrangement.

Steve Kaplan’s visit is generously supported by the NZ Film Commission

* You qualify for a concession if you hold a paid membership to an industry organisation or if you are a student, senior citizen or a beneficiary.

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