“Roland, you and your Container Lab have given new life to my 30-year dormant pen. Grateful for the experience, your expertise, and the incredible members of the group. Thank you! ”
The first Writers’ Container Lab was held in the Spring of 2025 for 5 weeks. Very shortly, participants requested that the workshop be extended for another 5 weeks.
Now the lab continues as an ongoing weekly writers workshop. Registration is offered in 9-week periods. Register by October 17 to get 9 sessions for the price of 7.
Weekly Writers’ Container Lab
choose the session that works best for you:
Bring your current work to the lab and use it to deepen your understanding and commitment to your latest work.
Mondays 7-9PM EST
or
Sundays 3-5PM EST
Monday’s section begins Oct 20 and runs for 9 weeks
Sunday’s section begins Oct 26 and runs for 9 weeks
Tuition: $450 $325 before Oct 17
online via zoom
“Roland is sharp. The artists he attracts are sharp. His hands-on workshops inspire me to grow artistically and approach my work with more compassion, precision, and depth”
2 essential questions
too many writers forget to ask about each new work.
1.
what is this really about?
2.
What container will best serve the needs of this story?
A failure to find the ideal audience can usually be traced to the author’s failure to thoroughly explore these two questions.
In the Writers’ Container Lab, we’ll consider any of so-called containers (short story, novel, memoir, essay, full-length play, one-act play, monologue, radio play, online monologue, song, musical, opera, film, podcast serial, etc.) you may have an interest in pursuing.
And together we will try to understand what might be the emotional impact of various choices you make about how you deliver your story to its audience.
We will ask questions about choices around art form, yes, but also around questions of length, scope, tone, venue, aesthetic and form. Because in the end every choice you make will either help your audience connect to the emotional center of your work or interfere.
It’s your job to learn how to sort through it all to really take stock, to separate what’s connecting from what’s not.
Becauise no matter what sort of project you set out to create, work that connects with people emotionally is the work they never forget.
And that’s the work every writer wants to be making.
“The combination of writing exercises Roland offers and the styles, voices and tones of the other writers in the group is a rich bath of inspiration that supports and illuminates ways to grow my own voice as I work on my poetry, memoir, and monologues. I signed up again. I got more writing done in that last lab, than I did the whole year before.”
early bird deadline oct 17
When you register by October 17, you’ll get 9 sessions for the price of 7.
“I don’t think I would have ever pushed through the way that I needed to and wanted to if I hadn’t met Roland, if he hadn’t been as excited and interested in what I was doing in my work and hadn’t helped me to find that excitement again in myself. That’s what he continues to do for me and has in the years since.”
Lots of writing to prompts in class will be combined with one hour of homework each week.
Together we’ll be assembling a battery of questions you will learn to ask again and again about each new project you undertake.
At the end of our 5 weeks together you should have a new awareness of just how many choices there are to make that matter and deserve your careful attention.
You’ll be on your way to acquiring a clear-eyed approach to understanding your own work.
Understanding what you’ve made and how it works is key to being an effective shepherd in getting it out to the world.
choose the session that works best for you:
Bring your current work to the lab and use it to deepen your understanding and commitment to your latest work.
Mondays 7-9PM EST
or
Sundays 3-5PM EST
Monday’s section begins Oct 20 and runs for 9 weeks
Sunday’s section begins Oct 26 and runs for 9 weeks
Tuition: $450 $325 before Oct 17
Questions?
Email Roland today. rolandtec@gmail.com
The best way to maximize your time with us is to show up for all 9 sessions and share as much work for immediate feedback as possible. But if you have to miss, all classes will be recorded and made available for viewing online for a limited time.
“Roland Tec’s online playwriting course advanced my new script, and brought me into contact with a number of great peers all across the U.S. The bi-weekly gathering sessions on Zoom were at once informative, intense, and filled with plenty of laughter.”
“As a result of having only audited the first session of Roland Tec’s 3-day Advanced Monologue Weekend, I feel my new play is finally on its way. Several of the craft topics covered in Tec’s approach to monologue make me feel so much more in command of my script writing than ever before.”
Click on any of these testimonial videos to learn how a Roland Tec workshop is truly unlike any other.
