<p>My list:
USC School of Cinematic Arts
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
SUNY Purchase (Dramatic Writing)
Chapman Dodge Institute
Loyola Marymount (How competitive is this? Is there even a supplement req?)</p>
<p>I ultimately want to be writing dramedies for television. I like my list, but I'm trying to expand. Are there other schools that offer:
playwrighting (sp?)
screenwriting<br>
dramatic writing
that I should consider?</p>
<p>Great list! to add on:</p>
<p>U of Michigan at Ann Arbor (hot new screenwriting program)</p>
<p>Look also at Emerson (in Boston). </p>
<p>See if the Roy Park Communication school at Ithaca College appeals to you.</p>
<p>There are some communications and theater programs that are in universities, which you might use as safeties just to be sure you get in somewhere:
such as Syracuse U, Boston U.</p>
<p>What's going on at Northwestern U in the Chicago area? Great theater departmetn, I've heard.</p>
<p>North Carolina School for the Arts, but check carefully if they offer enough for writers</p>
<p>If your academics are top-shelf, look into Amherst College for its theater department, w/ a resident playwright. Also more courses can be taken at Smith College in playwriting.</p>
<p>^^timed out. Amherst and Smith are part of the "Five-College Consortium" so you can take each others' playwriting courses. If you like the consortium but your academics aren't powerful enough to get into Smith or Amherst, then consider Hampshire College. They're part of that consortium, too, and structure it so you take many classes from the other 4 colleges and have a capstone senior project through Hampshire. Ken Burnes, documentary filmmaker who did Civil War and America on PBS, is a Hampshire College graduate. This is basically a "safety" approach for you, but I think you need one. Everybody does!</p>
<p>As for spelling, if you wanna be one, it's time to learn how to spell it.</p>
<p>I never checked a dictionary, but I believe the person is a playwright and the activity is playwriting.</p>
<p>Thanks. And spelling has been noted. </p>
<p>Ithaca is officially on my list. UMich seems underdeveloped, Emerson doesn't really have a dramatic writing programs, they have a writing program, and a film program, and none of the others really interest me.</p>
<p>But I'm loving the idea of Park Scholar.</p>
<p>Might try plowing through this link of film schools for their writing opportunities:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/filmschools%5B/url%5D">http://www.imdb.com/filmschools</a></p>
<p>SCAD(Savannah College of Art and Design) it seems really good, there are locations for this school in savannah, Georgia ; Atlanta,Georgia;France;and Hong kong</p>