Write a Children’s Musical
Instructor: Catie O’Donnell Heckel
Course Type: ONLINE
Maximum of 5 participants/teams
Course Type: ONLINE
Maximum of 5 participants/teams
Objectives: Write a 30-40 minute musical geared toward grade school aged children to be performed in an educational setting. Suggestions for topics will be given by Musical Theatre West, a theater company that produces shows in schools.
Outline:
Class 1- Choosing a topic
Class 2- Outline draft
Class 3- Outline due, work on scenes
Class 4- First 1/2 of book due, peer review and songspotting
Class 5- Second 1/2 of book due, peer review and songspotting
Class 6- First 1/2 of show with songs due, peer review
Class 7- Second 1/2 of show with song due, peer review
Class 8- Full shows due- showcase
Wednesday evenings (Feb. 28; Mar 6/13/20; Apr 3/10/17/24 - no class March 27) / 6:30pm-9:30pm PST / $500 per team
The Instructor
Catie O'Donnell Heckel
Bio
- Catie O’Donnell Heckel is a freelance theatre and film director, producer and educator. She has spent almost 20 years working on artistic projects in the industry, directing dozens of critically acclaimed professional productions across the United States and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She specializes in dramaturgy and directing for new musical theater works.
- She is the staff producer for NMI and has directed for 15 Minute Musicals and numerous monologues for The Veterans Project. Some directing achievements include earning The Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Producers Award for Stilettos and Steel, her film In The Cloud being named as an official selection at the London Shorts film festival, and her productions of Ruddigore and The Mikado being named in multiple “best of theater” lists.
- She is an alumni of Lincoln Center Directors Lab in New York Directors Lab West in Los Angeles and Chicago, and holds a BA in theater and music from the University of Miami, FL and a certificate of theater education from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.