Event Details
Monday
January 8, 2024 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Improv Principles to Make You a Better Screenwriter
The genius of improv applies to much more than just comedy—it can help you level-up your writing in any format and any genre. We’ll discuss honoring your impulses, playing at the top of our intelligence, a hat on a hat, Panel of Experts, and many more improv-based concepts and games. Together, we’ll go far beyond “yes, and” to gain new tools that’ll help you strengthen your live pitching abilities, surpass your writer’s block, and make you a powerful force in any writers’ room.
Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning filmmaker, comedy writer, and script consultant. He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated Concierge: The Series, starring Kate McKinnon. His short comedy Lemon premiered at Tribeca, played at dozens of international festivals and on United Airlines, and is currently in TV development. As a longtime member of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards, he’s written monologue jokes, desk pieces, and sketches for countless hosts and presenters.
He’s also the writer-director of the upcoming sci-fi comedy Knead. And he’s the creator of 365 Short Stories, where he’s publishing an original high-concept short story every single day in 2023.
Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s taught hundreds of screenwriters and novelists. His clients have sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple network, streaming, and cable shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, etc.; and had their movies and shows made across the globe.
Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, and the WGAE Softball Team.
About The Fundamentals of Screenwriting Series
The Fundamentals of Screenwriting with Timothy Michael Cooper is a WGA East seminar series that aims to live up to its name – to teach the fundamentals for screenwriters that need a refresher or journalists and other screenwriting novices looking to learn for the first time.
Watch the previous installments of the Fundamentals of Screenwriting series here.
