The STAGE project at UCSB's CNSI program is looking for curious and diverse individuals who would like to read new scripts and learn to write professional analyses - or coverage, as it's known in the industry - of those scripts.
Writing coverage is a highly employable skill in Hollywood. In addition, you may elect to earn between 1 and 4 units of graduate course credit for writing coverage.
The scripts you'll be reading are those that have been submitted to the STAGE International Script Competition, which offers a $10,000 prize for the best new play about science and technology. Please note that no particular knowledge of science and/or technology is needed to become a script reader, and that you'll use the same skills to write coverage of these plays as you would to write coverage of screenplays.
To become a reader, you will need to attend one (only one) of the following workshops, during which you will be taught the skills needed to analyze and write coverage of screenplays and plays:
Wednesday, November 16, at 6:00 p.m. in SSMS 2017 (SSMS is the new Social Sciences and Media Studies Building) OR Wednesday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. in SSMS 2017 OR Friday, November 18, at 2:00 p.m. in Elings 3250
Space in each seminar is limited, so please contact Alyssa Anderson at stageadmin@cnsi.ucsb.edu to reserve a place in one of these workshops.
The competition is a collaboration between UCSB's Professional Artists Lab (in the Department of Film & Media Studies and Media Arts & Technology) and the California NanoSystems Institute. For more information about the STAGE (Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration) International Script Competition, visit the CNSI STAGE website.
Please don't hesitate to contact Alyssa at stageadmin@cnsi.ucsb.edu if you have any questions about the workshop, the competition, or the course. We'll look forward to hearing from you, and thank you for your interest!