Green Chair Pictures ........................................................ Dana Biscotti Myskowski, author/screenwriter
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   Writing workshops made to order.


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Fees

Workshop fees vary depending on factors such as size of group, whether you want me to edit work of group members ahead of time, prep work, and my travel. Contact me and we can discuss your needs and mine.
Need to provide education to a group? 
I can tailor a workshop to meet your specific needs, 
or I can bring one of my current workshops to you. 

Past workshops have included:
  • Letter and email writing, introductory and advanced, for new attorneys
  • Channeling your inner character through meditative exercises
  • Penning your first short screenplay
  • Write a Film! Scripting a one-location short film
  • Writing a PSA script for nonprofits
  • Writing the Short Screenplay

For groups such as:
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival (ScriptBiz)
  • New Hampshire Writer's Project
  • Monadnock International Film Festival's High School Project
  • New Hampshire Film Festival
  • Concord TV (served as one of many in a workshop about PSAs)
  • The New Hampton School
  • Youth Summer Camps in Exeter and Henniker, NH

As an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire from 2004 to 2015, I can also adapt a lesson from any of my past classes and independent studies.

Classes offered include: 
  • Write a Feature! Scripting a single-location feature film
  • Introductory Scriptwriting - Writing the PSA, the short corporate script, and the short narrative fiction screenplay
  • Media Writing - Building a business through brilliant writing of websites, blogs, Tweets, emails, letters, news releases, and more
  • Teaching the Writer's Room - writing the BBC-style sitcom and PBS-appropriate drama

Independent Study Subjects have included:
  • Comic Book Writing
  • Memoir Writing
  • Novel Writing
  • Feature-length Scriptwriting
  • Playwriting
  • Magazine Writing

2017: Dana has been added to the New Hampshire Teaching Artists Roster

Find her listing at Creative Ground.

Workshop Request (via Contact Form)


A few past Workshops, Presentations, Panels, etc.


  • Upstairs, Downstairs: Colleges & Universities Create a Servant Class of Part-time Professors, World Fellowship Center, Albany, NH, Aug. 2015
  • Romancing the Script, NH Romance Writers of America, Sept. 2014
  • Guest Presenter, Scriptwriting portion of PSA Nonprofit Workshop, Concord TV, Feb. 2014
  • Moderator, Two Panels, ScriptBiz, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Aug. 2011 & 2012
  • Panelist & Moderator, The Business of Screenwriting, NH Film Festival, Oct. 2011
  • Panelist & Moderator, Granite Solid Advice on Production, SNOB Fest, Sept. 2011
  • Guest Speaker, following REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, Red River Theatres, Fall 2010
  • Panelist, Film in New Hampshire, NH Film Festival, Portsmouth, NH, Fall 2010
  • Presenter, Writing-to-Performing 3-Minute Plays Workshop, NH Writers’ Project, Fall 2010
  • Guest Speaker, “Movies About the Movies,” Red River Theatres, Concord, NH, June 2010
  • Panelist, “The Big Read: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird,” Keene, NH, March, 2010
  • PitchFiesta, pitch practice with food, UNHM, 2004-2010; RIIFF, 2004; NHFX, 2004
  • Panelist, Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar, Rindge, NH, May 2008
  • Poetry in Motion Pictures: The Art of Writing Short Scripts, New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) Writers’ Workshops, 2007 & Writers’ Day, 2004; Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival (RIIFF), 2005; and New Hampshire Film Expo (NHFX), 2004
  • Omnium-Gatherum, UNHM Adv. Short Scriptwriting Class Presentation, Spring 2007
  • Do I Know You? The Art of Getting to Know Your Characters, workshop, Goddard College, 2007 
  • The Art of Rewriting, workshop, NHFX, 2006
  • What if? Surviving a Hollywood Meeting, workshop, NHFX, 2005                        
  • The Art of E-Mail, workshop, Wiggin & Nourie, PA, Attorneys at Law, 2005
  • The Art of Business Communication, Parts I & II, workshops, Wiggin & Nourie, 2004 & 2005 
  • The Art of Marketing Your Scripts, workshop, NHWP Writers’ Day, 2004; RIIFF, 2004
  • Screenwriting Panelist, RIIFF, 2003; Breckenridge (Colorado) Festival of Film, 2002
  • Featured Reader & Speaker, North Adams Middle School, 1997
  • Reader, Downtown Celebration, North Adams, Mass., 1995, 1996
  • Writing Workshops for Youth, Stamford, Vermont, 1996
  • Rape Workshops, North Adams State College, 1994-1995 
  • Saying What You Mean: The Art of Corporate Communications, Alpha Chi, Virginia, 1987

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