On this page you’ll find many of the Roland Tec workshops offered most years. General scheduling info is offered to aid you in your planning. But the only way to be sure you’ll never miss out on a great opportunity is to join the RT Inner Circle email community.
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“Roland is a great teacher. He’s relaxed, intelligent and insightful. I always finish working with him feeling confident and eager to write.”
Roland Tec Online Writers Workshop
Is there a big project or a major artistic goal you’ve been wanting to get to for awhile? This 6-month online writers workshop provides just the right blend of focused critique and supportive accountability.
Everyone in the RTOWW invests in everyone else’s success.
Application period for the 2024 RTOWW will begin October 1, 2023 and the 2024 workshop will run from January through June, 2024.
BY INVITATION BASED ON SUBMITTED WORK SAMPLES.
GOALS MATTER
A VARIETY OF STYLES & EXPERIENCE
Talent and a serious commitment to your own work. Those are a given. And the workshop is made especially vibrant because Roland gathers a healthy mix of seasoned professionals with decades’ experience and writers who may be newer to the field.
RTOWW is most useful to the writer who arrives with one or two clear goals for this time together.
DISCOUNTED PRIVATE WORK
For the duration of your time in the workshop, you are invited to book private sessions with Roland at a 25% discount off his usual. rate.
“So many playwriting development opportunities focus on the forest rather than the trees, leaving playwrights stranded with a solid idea but the inability to communicate it effectively. Roland sees every tree in the forest and meticulously helps playwrights communicate precisely and artfully.”
Advanced Monologue
Want to expand your view of what can be achieved with just one person speaking? Interested in stretching your character development muscles while generating material that has the potential to generate brand new audiences for your work?
Repeat this weekend intensive whenever you like. Roland offers Advanced Monologue at least once each year.
And if you’d rather not wait for its next scheduled appearance, reach out to Michelle Moltz about organizing Adv Mono for you and 5 of your friends. Roland is happy to tailor the focus to your family of artists and the unique pursuits of your local community.
For priority access to Roland’s next monologue workshop (and most of the RT Advanced Workshops) join the
RT Inner Circle Patreon (for as little as $3/mo.)
WRITING IN CLASS AND BETWEEN. SESSIONS
Short exercises are given throughout to illustrate and help you internalize Roland’s 5 key ingredients found in the strongest monologues which result in the most unforgettable characters.
DIALOGUE IS ACTION
The monologues you’ll be working on in this workshop involve one character speaking to one person or a group of people in service of some objective.
Hear Me Out Monologues
There may be no simpler means of getting your work up and in front of new audiences quickly and economically than the stand-alone monologue.
That’s why in the early days of the 2020 pandemic, Roland Tec founded Hear Me Out Monologues — to encourage more scriptwriters to produce strong unforgettable theatre with little more than one person speaking.
“It’s obvious from the beginning how funny, unassuming, and utterly charming Roland is—someone you look forward to spending time with. His humor is never cruel. He creates a sense of community among his students, even in an online class. He’s obviously been teaching and thinking about teaching for many years. Immediately apparent, too, is the diligence with which he responds to questions outside of class. What becomes clear more gradually is that he’s one of the smartest people you’ll ever meet. His knowledge is stunning”
the edge of our seats
Ever wonder what it is that makes audiences hungry for some shows and indifferent to others? The most powerful fuel that fills our theatres is audience curiosity. The most successful writers are masters at cultivating and sustaining it.
In the opening moments of your film, play or musical, our curiosity will be at its peak. We’re ready for anything. Eager to follow you wherever you wish to go. Every choice you make from that moment to the last can be understood as either intensifying or diminishing our curiosity.
Roland will help you understand how and why these shifts occur so that you, too, can keep us on the edge of our seats.
Join us each January.
the EDGE of our seats
DISCOVER THE MOST RELIABLE RESERVOIR OF AUDIENCE CURIOSITY
Roland takes you through the key elements that must be present in your script if you want the play to play to an audience on the edge of their seats.
LEARN TO HARNESS YOUR MOST POWERFUL FUEL: CURIOSITY
When the curtain rises or the house lights dim, your audience is at the peak of curiosity. Every choice you make from that moment until the final breath either ignites or snuffs this vital element we must harness every time we gather a group of strangers to bear witness.
WRITING TO PROMPTS
READING WRITING ALOUD FOR QUICK FEEDBACK
“As the ranks of playwrights grow, we have more and more interest in and need for alternatives to the passive wait for theaters to give us a call. Roland Tec has done his self-production workshop around the country. It’s informative, direct, and helpful. It gives playwrights a sense of power over their careers. ”
Cracking the Producers Code
Are you tired of feeling powerless in the face of Sphinxlike producers who offer little to no feedback on your work?
Imagine just how much more you could accomplish if you understood their obsessions better.
Bring your script to a CPC weekend and you learn to examine your scripts through the many lenses producers employ when deciding which property to take a chance on.
There is no certainty in producing a play or a film, only a set of assumptions which, if we’re lucky, chart a path connecting the work with its most passionate audience. Learning how producers think will help you make wiser choices about who to approach with your work.
Weekend intensive upon request.
Cracking
the Producer’s
Code
FROM SCRIPT TO PROPERTY
Understanding the sorts of assumptions most producers will be bringing to your masterpiece will help you learn to sort through which opportunities are the best fit for the type of work you’re making.
Roland’s groundbreaking primer FROM SRIPT TO PROPERTY provides screenwriters and playwrights with more than a dozen tools designed to help authors become better stewards of their own work. Understanding each script’s unique value as a property is your first step. Digital download available for $5.
BRING ONE OF YOUR OWN SCRIPTS TO THIS DISCUSSION
Exercises help you read your own pages through the essential lenses all experienced producers employ: budget, theme, PR, casting, venue, zeitgeist, and more.
“Roland Tec’s Self-Production Boot Camp is both practical and inspirational. He tells us how to do it and then makes a strong and life-changing case for why to do it. Across the board, Atlanta participants agreed that it gave them great new tools for kick-starting the next stage of their career.”
Self-Production Boot Camp
Tired of the whole Write-Submit-Wait doom loop? Writers who’ve produced their own work report feeling newly autonomous and in command of their artistic destiny.
The truth is, producing your own work is a lot like any new skill you may have been too intimidated to attempt. Once you’re actually doing it, you’ll be amazed at how inspiring it can be. Make no mistake: producing is highly creative.
But don’t ever try doing it alone. Filmmaking and playmaking are both team sports. Not just because there’s too much to do for one person alone but more important, because collaboration always brings us to completely surprising and often miraculous discoveries.
Self-Pro Boot Camp begins in May and runs for 10 weeks.
RESEARCH IN THE COMMUNITY YOU CALL HOME
You’ll always be encouraged to question assumptions. Find out why things are done the way they are and learn from fellow workshop members who live in different parts of the country where chances are things are done differently.
SHORT HOMEWORK AND QUIZZES DRIVE HOME KEY PRINCIPLES
YOUR SCRIPT AS MODEL
You’re using one of your own scripts as a model. From the specific, general principles emerge.
“Roland brought a fresh new energy to Moab Folk Camp. His Vocal Play class was different from anything else we’d every offered - and his students loved it. Roland’s wide open generosity of spirit, his sense of creativity and play, and his humor were a wonderful addition to the community.”
Five Friends
Sometimes the stars don’t align. Not to worry. Just gather 5 friends who share your interest to commission your very own RT workshop when it’s most convenient for you.
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