The Woods Hole Film Festival will present a very special workshop for anyone interested in learning how to write for a film or television comedy. Veteran comedy writer Steve Young helms the three day virtual workshop, FUNNY BUSINESS: FINDING YOUR COMEDIC VOICE ON THE PAGE & IN THE ROOM, Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21, 2021. Woods Hole Film Festival Writers Symposium presents three days of comedy writing, observations, and war stories.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
So, you’re funny. Now what? Could writing and creating comedy be your hobby, or even your career? In this multi-day workshop with former Letterman and Simpsons writer Steve Young, you’ll get an insider’s glimpse of what it’s like to be a professional television comedy writer, and a chance to help develop your own comedy writing chops via exercises and discussion. You’ll team up with fellow participants as a taste of a collaborative writers room and learn about the skills needed to work in that environment. Don’t miss this chance to up your comedy game!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
For 25 years, Steve Young wrote for David Letterman’s Late Night and Late Show programs. He also wrote for The Simpsons and wrote the Matt Groening-produced animated Christmas special, Olive the Other Reindeer. Most recent credits: NBC’s Maya & Marty variety show, Harry Connick Jr.’s show Harry, and HBO’s Night of Too Many Stars. A Harvard graduate, Steve teaches television history at New York University. He is the co-author of “Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals,” and is the main subject of the acclaimed comedy music documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway.
Fee: $150, $125 Members. Limited to 24 participants. Prior experience not required. Register via www.woodsholefilmfestival.org. For more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.
The Festival is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Woods Hole Foundation, the Falmouth Fund of the Cape Cod Foundation, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Cape Cod 5 Charitable Foundation Trust. The WHFF Writers Symposium is part of the Woods Hole Film Festival’s year-round program.