Call for Applications! Script Focus Programme

18 May 2010

Organisation/person name:

Script to Screen

Work type:

Casual

Work classification:

Writer - Scriptwriter

Job description:

Call for Applications: deadline 27 May

Script to Screen is pleased to announce that renowned US comedy expert Steve Kaplan will travel to New Zealand to work intensively with two selected writers on their comedy feature scripts as part of our Te Ao Marama Creative Development Series 2010.

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, Touchstone and others 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), Will Scheffer (Big Love).

Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 27 May!

Application processing fee: $15

Script Focus Programme (2 selected participants): no charge

When and where are the sessions? 30 June, Auckland

Click here for further info & application requirements

Steve Kaplan’s Comedy Intensive website

Opportunity location:

Auckland Central

Key skills sought:

Screenwriting

Start date:

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

End date:

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

This opportunity is:

Unpaid

Salary low $:

Salary high $:

Closing date:

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Contact details:

Esther: esther@script-to-screen.co.nz 09 360 5400

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