When not writing, Dominic is committed to working with students in order to foster the next generation of theatrical talent. He has experience both students one-on-one, leading playwriting workshops, and classroom teaching, and he has worked with organizations and universities such as Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Echo Theater, Young Playwrights Inc., Columbia University, Reed College, the Pierrepont School, and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School. For inquiries, please contact him.

SAMPLE WORKSHOP

Stop Thinking, Start Writing! Corralling the Imagination and Creating a Play

You have a wealth of ideas in your head and so much you want to say, but how on Earth to begin?! There is nothing more daunting than the empty page. In this six-week workshop, we will focus on generating material, on getting out of our own ways and trusting in our imaginations and in ourselves. We will approach writing from a number of different avenues: we will explore formalistic exercises and the ways in which rules and structures can actually unlock our creative processes; we will mine the self and our interior worlds for the feelings that we hold most dear and the themes that we cannot escape; and we will look at existing works in order to interrogate how the great writers of past and present build their worlds. As the workshop progresses, our time will become more tailored to the specific needs and desires of the writers present and the work that they are currently invested in. By the end of our time together, the goal is to have the bare-bones architecture of a full-length play, all of the ingredients that are most dear to you ready to be turned into the creative meal of your dreams!