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Teacher Feature: Diane Fine

Diane Fine, the Leopold Stokowski of screenwriting teachers, conducting wonderful artists and big ideas without a baton.

Take Diane’s Class:  The Screenwriting Workshop: Tuesday Evenings

These classes offer insightful, positive feedback on screenplays, teleplays, TV pilots and treatments that are in progress. They will focus on story structure, character arcs and thematic development while also offering guidance on common screenplay formatting issues.

Unlike other forms of writing, screenwriting is a highly collaborative endeavor— for better and for worse! Come practice your writing skills while also honing your workshopping chops. Now say “workshopping chops” five times fast.

Diane’s favorite authors:

  • Steve Zaillian
  • Nora Ephron
  • Alvin Sargent
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Nicole Holofcener
  • Charlie Kaufman
  • Billy Wilder
  • Preston Sturges

Learn more about Diane here!