Let’s Make a Play: Playwriting Classes for Kids and Adults
We believe in the power of play and creativity.
We believe in creating stories as a way to connect, understand, and respect one another. Let’s Make a Play is a playmaking community for dreamers, creatives, the curious, and seekers.
Our stories are powerful.
Stories help us understand different perspectives to awaken and inspire as well as to bring joy, healing, and understanding to all audiences.
Let’s Make a Play is a hub for makers, dreamers, and the curious. We offer writing classes and workshops to help your child go from an idea to a completed play in 6-weeks (or one week via our summer camp). We are passionate about telling stories from different perspectives to awaken and inspire as well as to bring joy, healing, and understanding to all audiences. We believe that plays and playmaking should be accessible to all as a way to better connect with one another without judgment. Your child’s voice matters and we can’t wait to show you how to express it through playmaking and play development.
In 2021, Serena created Let’s Make a Play as a way to empower kids and adults to learn how to write their own plays in a simplified, fun, and engaging way. She saw that many programs for kids were centered around musical theater and acting, which are an incredible form of expression, but she wanted to create something where kids can be the creator of their own worlds. Programs start at age 7 where we offer classes and workshops to help kids use the power of their imagination to tell stories and create their own play. Classes are taught throughout Westchester and via Zoom.
ABOUT SERENA: Serena Norr is a writer, teaching artist, playwright, and founder of Let’s Make a Play, a playwriting program for kids and adults. Her plays have been performed at the Omaha Fringe Festival, White Plains Performing Arts Center, the New Deal Creative Arts Center, Westchester Collaborative Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Players Theater with the Rogue Theater Festival and the NYC Short Play Festival, The Tank, The Flea, the University of Alabama as well as various productions over Zoom. She is also a teaching artist with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
Her plays have been published in the “Bittersweet Monologue Collection,” “ellipsis… literature & art Drama,” and the “Stonecoast Review.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Westchester Collaborative Theatre, participant in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (2021), the National Women’s Theatre Festival (WTF) Directing Program (2022) and Producing/Directing Program (2023), and The Workshop Theater (2023). For more information, visit http://www.serenanorr.com/
