Deborah Dashow Ruth

Will Dunne's Dramatic Workshops

Will Dunne is an author, playwright, scriptwriter and teacher who brings more than 30 years of practical experience to the consultations and workshops he conducts. His have generated many international, national, and local honors.

In March 2008, the University of Chicago Press published Will Dunne's book The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories as part of its prestigious series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing. In 2016 he published The Architecture of Story: A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer (University of Chicago Press).

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Deborah Dashow Ruth has attended Will Dunne's monthly weekend workshops in San Francisco since 2006. All of the plays she has written and revised and rewritten resulted from these workshops. 

"Thank you for Joyriding on an Updraft. What a beautiful book. I look forward to discovering the poet who has been sitting beside me for so many years as a playwright." -- Will Dunne, 2015