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Next Workshop:
1-Day Neo-Futurist Intensive
Sunday, August 17th, 12-5pm
$100 with early bird discount
Level 1
Intensive
Writing and Performing as your Authentic Self: Unleash your creativity! Join our 1-day intensive workshop and dive into the exhilarating world of Neo-Futurist performance. Discover the power of authenticity, dismantle the fourth wall, and respond to the world around you through task-based theatre. With expert guidance, eliminate writer’s block and unleash your playwriting potential to create meaningful work. By the end of this course, you'll have written, performed, and workshopped a portfolio of your very own short original plays. No experience? In deep? Hit a block? Dive in with Julia in August!
Julia Melfi (she/they) is a performer, playwright, director, and published poet. They joined The New York Neo-Futurists in 2018 and in that time have premiered over 127 plays in The Infinite Wrench. Julia has also led Neo-Futurists workshops with high schoolers, college gap year students, children at local public libraries, and established artists curious and excited about Neo-Futurism. She has also been a teaching artist with Ping Chong & Co and Oberlin Drama at Grafton.
Student Testimonials
“I felt nurtured, like a plant.”
“A truly fantastic time! It was dynamic, engaging, yet relaxing and comfortable—I’d recommend an NYNF workshop to anyone looking to explore their creativity.”
“I was happily surprised at how much this workshop affected my creative writing after the first class.”
“A welcoming, comfortable space.”
“Loved how much writing we got to do, loved the feedback we got, loved the experience of getting to know my classmates over the course of the workshop. I really did get an ensemble experience by the end of it.“
“The instructors were great at helping illuminate the fundamentals to people of all levels of experience.”
“I can now go off and keep creating.”
About Our Workshops
We believe that everyone’s life stories are worth telling on stage. Our workshops provide tools for transposing these true stories into theater by delving into the crafts of writing, directing, design, and collaborative devising. Using the non-illusory aesthetic, participants will create new work and sharpen skills for performance that can be applied in any professional setting—whether in the arts field or beyond. All experience levels are welcome.
Want to bring a Neo-Futurist workshop to your school or business? E-mail us at info@nynf.org.
Upcoming NY Neo-Futurist Workshops
Level 1
Writing and Performing as your Authentic Self: Unleash your creativity! Join our 12-hour workshop and dive into the exhilarating world of Neo-Futurist performance. Discover the power of authenticity, dismantle the fourth wall, and respond to the world around you through task-based theatre. With expert guidance, eliminate writer’s block and discover your playwriting potential to create meaningful work. By the end of this course, you'll have written, performed, and workshopped a portfolio your very own short original plays.
Level 2
Developing Your Artistic Process and Practice: Our Level Two workshop is a journey deeper into the Neo-Futurist aesthetic. Participants will be given writing prompts that challenge them to develop their existing body of work. Focusing on deconstruction and revision, participants will create dialogue plays, anti-plays and high-concept, low-budget theater within the Neo-Futurist aesthetic. This class will also build upon on each participant’s strengths as performers. With more personal and detailed feedback from instructors, participants will learn to critically analyze their writing and emerge with polished, ready to be performed, material.
Level 3
Collaboration, Creation, & Performance: In our Level III workshop, delve into the mechanics of creating and collaborating within an ensemble. Participants will create movement pieces, adaptive work, and plays that change the space with spectacle—in service of a full, balanced menu of plays. The class culminates in a workshop performance of the participants’ work, taking the participants through the Neo-Futurist collaborative process of creating an Infinite Wrench show – beginning with a pitch session, then a group rehearsal and, finally, the public performance.
Questions, comments, concerns, recipes? Contact us at info@nynf.org