During the summer, musical theater workshops meet daily, and during the school year they meet weekly. Over the course of this workshop, Dan Kitrosser and other musical theatre professionals lead six participants, through a musical and lyrical journey from brainstorming, to writing, to sometimes performing on stage. Together, the group writes one show. One special workshop that runs from July 25th-July 29th will culminate in a show performed by the kids themselves at the JuniorGenius Festival on July 29th and July 30th. Also, once a year, Writopia produces a Best Playwrights' Festival at which original Writopia plays and musical theater pieces are rehearsed and performed by professional actors.

This summer, we are running one several musical theatre workshops. See the summer schedule here.

Please call for special scheduling requests, or to check availability: 212-222-4088

Afterward, please register and handle the fee here. Looking forward to meeting you!

About Dan Artistic Director, Best Playwrights' Festival Playwriting, Musical Theater, and Fiction Instructor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Daniel Ajl Kitrosser teaches musical theater, playwrighting, and fiction year-round at Writopia Lab. Dan is the resident story-teller at Central Park and an award-winning playwright. His 2009 children's musicals were performed at theaters throughout the city, in Bryant Park, and won rave reviews from Time Out New York Kids. At Writopia, six of Dan's students have won "Best Play" in Stephen Sondheim's 2008, 2009, and 2010 Write a Play! contests, and many others were named finalists or won honorable mentions. In 2010, one of Dan's seniors won a top award and scholarship from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. A graduate of NYU, Dan's screenplays include "Old Days" directed by Matt Shapiro, starring Brad Oscar (Tony Nomination, The Producers) and Mary Beth Piel (Dawson's Creek) and "Bodybuilder Island" directed by Matthew Kliegman. Dan has been a final committee judge for the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival for four years (this coming summer will be his fifth) after having won the festival himself for his play "Be Here Now." (That play went on to be a finalist in Stephen Sondheim's National Playwriting Competition). Dan was a Summer 2007, Teaching Fellow with the Philadelphia Young Playwrights organization.

Writopia's 2010 Young Playwrights ("Write a Play!") Festival Results!

Three of our students won Best Play (three "Best Play" awards are honored per age group) and one won an Honorable Mention:

* Middle School Division, Best Play:Serena Alagappan, 12

* Middle School Division, Honorable Mention: Priscilla Guo, 13

* Elementary School Division, Best Play: Jenny Richards, 10

* Elementary Division, Best Play: Claudia Yanos, 10

And a play by two Writopia students, "Tuna Casserole...with a Hint of Orange," was a finalist in the Young Playwrights National Festival:

*Jane Herz, 11 and Serena Alagappan, 12