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ONLINE - How to Write Your Own RomCom Outline
6 weeks | Wednesdays | February 19, 2025
6pm-8pm PT | 7pm-9pm MT | 8pm-10pm CT | 9pm-11pm ET | 10pm-12am AT
Instructor: Ashleigh Stanczak
MEMBER PRICE: $350.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $425.00
Like Kate Winslet’s 78 year old neighbor/best friend/potential love interest says to her in The Holiday, “you’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God’s sake!” Our life and our stories carry the best characters. This workshop will teach you how to pull from your own world & stories to create the rom com script of your dreams. In 6 weeks you’ll walk away with a finished 3-Act Outline for your rom-com screenplay! We’ll go over my tailor made cheat sheet where you’ll learn the rules of rom-com, the “big 6” genres, and love themes. Each week we’ll do in class writing prompts and I’ll assign movie viewing assignments from the greats like Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers to help you discover the world, characters, tone and dialogue for your script outline! During our class/slumber party you’ll ask yourself hard hitting questions like, are you in an indie Rom Com? A friend Rom Com? Or, a sci-fi Rom Com? (yes, this is a genre) Is your best friend Rupert Everett? Or Bonnie hunt? Are you a Meg or a Salma? A John Cusack?? Are you a NYC Rom Com or an indie Minnesota Rom Com? Open to all! This will be a fun and fulfilling journey where you’ll learn not only how to write a rom com but how to write about yourself!
This workshop takes place online via Zoom.
Ashleigh Stanczak is an award winning comedy director and writer of over 15 years. As the proud recipient of the HBO Women in Comedy Audience Award for Parent Teacher Conference and the NBCUniversal Shorts Fest semi-finalist for Girl Brain, she has written for Refinery29, a Blaze Imprint, and Upright Citizens Brigade. Her writing has also finalized in the Austin Film Festival with her pilot “Kill Me?” and feature script, “The Life of Fat Girls.” She directed several episodes of the Funny or Die series Coach Von Pidgeon as well as the directing, co-writing, and selling the short New Hair to Funny or Die. She studied Filmmaking at NYFA and screenwriting at Emerson College, where she completed an intensive independent workshop with graduate program director Jean Stawarz. After studying sketch comedy at UCB, she quickly became the head writer and director for iO West Comedy Network. In 2020 she created the popular instagram account Female Apartments from 90’s Movies, where she writes comedic blurbs about 90’s and early 2000’s rom com’s. A podcast soon followed where comedians and screenwriters talk about their favorite rom com. Guests have included Before Sunset’s Kim Krizan, Moana’s Pamela Ribon and Dream for an Insomniac’s Tiffanie DeBartolo. Her class, How To Write a Rom Com Outline became a big a hit, drawing in students such as Vogue’s Andew Philip Bevan and Katy Lindenmuth. She’s currently a writing coach for future screenwriters, specializing in helping writers mine through their own love lives to write their own Rom Com. Several of her female centric shorts are featured on WhoHaha, Funny or Die, have been tweeted by Elizabeth Banks, and placed in several short film competitions throughout the country. But her greatest accomplishment remains at age 8 when she taught her guinea pig to roller-skate. Butterscotch died the very next day. www.astanczak.com
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