Playwriting with Max Yu fall '26
OCTOBER 1 - NOVEMBER 12
7 CLASSES: Tuesdays 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Showcase at TAYLOR & CO BOOKS NOVEMBER 19
Playwriting with Max Yu fall '26
This is a 7-week course that meets every Tuesday evening.
This is a 7-week course that meets every Thursday evening + a showcase reading of the new work on November 19th at Taylor & Co. Bookstore on Cortelyou Road at 7pm.
Lessons are a combination of lecture and workshop. Students will have an assignment to work on each week, as well as plays to read based on each class. Each writer will have a chance to hear their work read aloud in class, as well as in the showcase at the end of June.
This class is oriented towards generative writing. Students will have finished a one-act play or the beginning of their full-length play by the end of this course.
Max says, "I do not believe in telling you how to write. I am interested in helping you discover your own unique writing process, and leaning into what works for you and the art you want to create. What you will take from this class is an understanding of how plays and performance function, along with a toolkit that will help you create and develop your writing."
Class 1: Thurs Oct 1 6:30 - 8:30
Class 2: Thurs Oct 8th "
Class 3: Thurs Oct 15th "
Class 4: Thurs Oct 22nd "
Class 5: Thurs Oct 29th "
Class 6: Thurs Nov 5th "
Class 7: Thurs Nov 12th "
+ showcase Nov. 19th at Taylor & Co. Books!
About Max Yu
Max Yu is an award-winning playwright who has been featured in the New York Times for being the youngest and first Asian to win America’s largest cash prize for theater, the Relentless Award. Max’s work has been seen/developed at The Goodman Theater, Atlantic Theater, New York Theater Workshop, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, American Playwriting Foundation, Ma-Yi Theater, 大船文化 Grand Boat Theater, Yun Theatre, Gingold Theatrical Group, Orchard Project, among others. Max is a current member of Ma-Yi’s Writers Lab, and has been a member of the Orchard Project’s Audio Lab, Page 73’s Writers Group, and Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner. As a teacher, Max has worked with National Theater Institute and Boston University in addition to running independent classes on playwriting. Max has published poetry and prose in China at Spittoon and Babel Magazine.
