The Department of Dramatic Writing at Tisch Asia offers a two year curriculum, designed to train modern dramatists who will master, with equal facility, the craft and principles of script writing for the stage, screen and television. Our faculty members are experienced, working professional writers with a passion for teaching.

The environment we have created is intimate, intense, collegial, and very exciting; the same training process we have been developing at Tisch New York over
the past 25 years.

Dramatic Writing has its own 85-seat theatre where you will see your scripts performed as concert readings, student cabarets and short films. There are opportunities for working with other young artists in at least one production collaboration.  You will meet and learn from the professionals who make frequent guest appearances on our campus, and internships are available in the New York area during the summer between first and second years.
We encourage the development of work that is fresh, original, and even groundbreaking.  We believe it is of utmost importance to encourage emerging writers to find a unique and individual voice that will mark their work, because we believe that is the best way to allow you to adapt and succeed in the professional world.

As an emerging writer in the Dramatic Writing Program in Tisch Asia, you will meet other young artists in your field and in the allied fields of Animation, Filmmaking and Producing, and you will join with these artists – your contemporaries - to create the film, television, and theater of the future.  We look forward to helping you make that happen.