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Our 2025-2026 Classes & Workshops
WOMEN’S VOICES… FROM THE ATTIC
with Amy Hartman
Sustaining or Artistic Members: Free | Non-Members: $125 Register
Mondays: 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
September 22 - October 27, 2025
A Writing Workshop for Women Only: Playwrights, Poets, Song Writers – Fiction & Creative
Non-Fiction. This six-week class is ideal for inspiration, feedback, and ideas for whatever project you are currently working on or wanting to start…or for women who simply want to read a part of their writing or just listen and observe creative discussions. COME FOR THE WRITING! STAY FOR THE FUN!
NEW PLAY DRAMATURGY: DEEPENING STORY THROUGH COLLABORATION
with Kirt Shineman
Sustaining or Artistic Members: Free | Non-Members: $25 Register
Thursday 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
September 25, 2025
In this in-depth workshop, experience an all-in, zero-fluff afternoon for actors, directors, writers,
theatre lovers and creative instigators of all kinds. Professor of Theatre and resident script-
whisperer Kirt Shineman will crack open the mysterious art of new play dramaturgy—and hand
you the tools to develop a better script. Learn what a dramaturg does, how to ask questions that
inspire, practice real-world feedback sessions without bloodshed, and connect with other artists
shaping tomorrow’s stories—today. Whether you’re a playwright looking for clarity, a director
trying to decode a first draft, or an actor who wants more than “say it faster,” this class offers
the shared language, practical tools, and generous spirit essential to the collaborative process of new play development. You’ll walk out with sharper instincts, stronger questions, and a take-
home Dramaturgy Toolkit that’ll serve you long after the last stage direction fades.
Space is limited. Brains required. Passion encouraged. No previous dramaturgy experience
necessary.
Playwrights’ Idea Lab: Two Days to Ignite Your Creativity
with John Perovich
Members: Free | Non-Members: $25 per class Register
Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 11am to 1pm
Friday, October 17, 2025 from 11am to 1pmReady to set your imagination on fire? Dive into a high-octane playground for playwrights where every activity is built to spark new ideas and put them to the test. Each day is totally different — sign up for one or supercharge your creativity with both! Walk away with a stack of bold concepts, fresh pages of writing, and the confidence to know which ideas can grow into your next short or full-length play. This Lab is lead by Studio Member John Perovich, a Phoenix-based playwright, dramaturg, and champion of new work whose plays have been produced locally and featured nationally at Valdez Theatre Conference, Mid-America Theatre Conference, and Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. As the founding Artistic Director of Now & Then Creative Company, he developed over a dozen new plays and still leads innovative theatre challenges, like Midnight Oil, an annual combined theatre and film challenge Phoenix. John currently leads our monthly Playwrights Circle at Theatre Artists Studio. With more than a decade of teaching experience at ASU and other colleges, John thrives on guiding writers to spark daring ideas, test their creative limits, and bring powerful stories to life on stage.
OFF STAGE: A MONTHLY PLAY DISCUSSION GROUP
Moderated by Carol MacLeod, TAS Artistic Director
Open to TAS Sustaining or Artistic Members, along with their family and friends. Register
Join us for lively and informative discussions on works of family drama (the Voice of American
Realism).
1st Thursday of every month from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Go to the Voice of American Realism page (using the password you got with with reistrations confirmations) to download scripts.
October 2, 2025– Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
November 6, 2025 – Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neil
December 4, 2025 – All the Way Home by Tad Mosel
January 8, 2025 – Fences by August Wilson
February 5, 2025 –The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
March 5, 2025 – Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
April 2, 2025 – 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
May 7, 2025 – Purpose by Braden Jacobs-Jenkins
2024-2025 Classes and Workshops
Scene Study
Wednesdays, March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025 from 1 pm to 3:00pm at the Studio
Judy Rollings will help you discover the adventure that awaits when you learn the tools for working with a partner. Experience responding and reacting authentically in a way that can make every rehearsal and performance brand new!!
Broadway Sing Along: Jerome Kern
Moderator: Scott Sims
Friday, March 21, 2025 from 1 pm to 2:30pm at the Studio
Come join us for a little musical theatre history on the life and career of Jerome Kern and then join in the fun of singing some of his best and well known hits.
Broadway Sing Along: Frank Loesser
Moderator: Joe Bousard
Friday, May 16, 2025 from 1 pm to 2:30pm at the Studio
Come join us for a little musical theatre history on the life and career of Frank Loesse and then join in the fun of singing some of his best and well known hits.
Off Stage: Play Discussion Group
Open only to members and their family and guests.
Moderator: Carol MacLeod
First Thursday of each month. (October to May) from 10:30am to 12:00pm
Tony Award Winning Plays (One from each decade from 1950s to present)
October 3, 2024 - The1950s: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
November 7, 2024 - The 1960s: The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
December 5, 2024 - The 1970s: Sticks and Bones by David Rabe
January 2, 2025 - The 1980s: Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
February 6, 2025 - The 1990s: Last Night at Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
March 6, 2025 - between 2000-10: Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
April 3, 2025 - between 2011-20: The Humans by Stephen Karam
May 1, 2025 - between 2020-24: Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
