Neo-Futurism: Writing the Two-Minute Play
presented by the San Francisco Neo-Futurists
A four-week playwriting workshop focusing on creating performances in the Neo-Futurist aesthetic.
Location: CAST (black box theater)
447 Minna Street, San Francisco
Cost: $195
Wednesdays from 7 - 10 PM
June 28 - July 19
About the Class
In this 4-week playwriting workshop, you’ll generate your own body of work focusing on honesty, vulnerability, and all the highs and lows of being a person! Over the course of the month, you’ll collaborate with a creative cohort in writing, pitching and receiving feedback on original work, devised through theatrical exercises, a plethora of prompts, and collaboration with other artists.
The goal of this workshop is for you to meet new people and artists, round out your artistic practice in a new manner, support the confidence to tell your own story in your own way, and walk away with a brand-new set of your own performance pieces!
We’ll create work in the Neo-Futurist aesthetic of non-illusory performance:
We do not write or play characters. Our performances are for and with the people around us.
We do not pretend we are in a different place and time. It is always right now.
We do not ask our audience to be passive observers, but active participants in the communal work of creating a performance.
Following this course, we will offer Neo-Futurism 201: Performing the Two-Minute Play to all who have taken Neo-Futurism 101. Please join us!
Meet Your Instructors!
jeb
jeb has been a San Francisco Neo-Futurist since 2022. Before that they studied comedy (improv, stand-up, sketch), dance (modern, ballet, jazz), and Traditional Theatre - they were halfway decent at all of those things and still do some of them! They have a BS in environmental science from UC Davis and almost got a dance minor, but were too busy with their little improv shows.
Eli Bishop
Eli Bishop is a writer, performer, and cartoonist from the East Coast, living in San Francisco since 2003. He has been with the SF Neo-Futurists since 2022, and has performed with the touring ensemble The Independent Eye in California and New York. His short comix pieces have appeared in The Best American Comics, Sci-Fi San Francisco, Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose, and other anthologies. He has also been a techie, a nurse, a transcriptionist, a dishwasher, a dog person and a cat person.
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About the San Francisco Neo-Futurists
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly prolific writer/director/performers who create theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry and living newspaper, and that conveys experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible. Named one of “22 San Francisco things everyone must do” by the SF Chronicle, their flagship show, The Infinite Wrench, is an ever-changing collection of 30 short plays performed in a race against the clock, performed 50 weekends a year. Since the company’s founding in November 2013, they’ve written and performed over 3,000 original short plays, winning Best Theater Company in SF Weekly’s Readers’ Poll & the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay.