Writing your fire

Join Writing Your Fire online and ignite your creativity with tips, prompts, and a supportive crew!

Join Writing Your Fire- Online!

Got a story sitting in your chest that won’t leave you alone? Good. That’s where we start.

Write the Fire is a high-energy, hands-on playwriting intensive designed for both emerging and experienced writers ready to deepen their voice and sharpen their craft. Across two dynamic days, participants will explore the core elements of powerful storytelling—from building compelling characters and defining a major dramatic question to crafting dialogue that crackles with tension and truth.

Rooted in the idea that theatre is both ritual and rebellion, this workshop pushes writers to excavate personal stories, confront the past, and imagine bold futures on stage. Through guided writing exercises, group discussion, and live feedback, participants will generate new material and leave with the foundation of a new play or a significantly developed work-in-progress.

Expect to write. Expect to share. Expect to surprise yourself.

What You’ll Learn

• How to build a vivid, immersive world for your play
• Crafting a Major Dramatic Question that drives your story
• Creating complex, unforgettable characters
• Writing dialogue that feels alive, urgent, and real
• Turning personal experience into theatrical storytelling
• Tools to start—and finish—your play

Instructor: Reginald Edmund

Reginald Edmund is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg, and international theatre leader based in Houston, Texas. With over 15 years of experience across the U.S. and U.K., he has built a reputation for developing bold, socially resonant work and cultivating new voices in theatre.

He is the Co-Founder and Managing Curating Producer of the Black Lives Black Words International Project, a multi-city initiative that has produced new theatrical works across the U.S. and London, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at San Jacinto College, where he mentors the next generation of theatre artists.

Edmund’s artistic voice is rooted in what he calls “Southern Fried Mysticism”—a storytelling approach that blends history, memory, and the supernatural to explore the African American experience across time. His work interrogates the past while imagining new futures, treating the stage as both sacred ground and a site of transformation.

His honors include the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Award, and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, among others.

Saturday & Sunday, May 2–3
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM