Instructor: Cody Sullivan
Monday - Friday
June 23 - 27
1pm - 4pm
5 sessions

If you only had five minutes to tell your story, what would you say? In this workshop each participant will write, workshop and on the final day, stage a five minute play at a performance open to the public. Practicing within this short limit helps us to get to the juice quickly, and restraints can be the best teachers. This workshop is a chance to be silly, to be serious, to be dramatic, to be chicly austere but mostly it is a chance to play. We will spend five days writing with each other, reading the works and rehearsing our plays.

The workshop will focus on daily practice as the core of sustainable writing and on the collaborative process of group readings and rehearsals. Each participant’s Five Minute Play can act as a seed for a larger piece, or stand alone as a sketch in its own right. A laptop is strongly suggested as we will be continuously editing the plays. All writing levels are welcome.

Cody Sullivan is a theater maker based in Provincetown MA. His theater practice began in 2012 when he started studying improvisation at ImprovBoston in 2012. In 2014, he graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and moved to Chicago to study at the iO Theater. He was on house teams at the iO from 2015-2019. While at the iO he wrote two radio plays, two solo plays and was a contributing writer for Cards Against Humanity. In 2019, he moved to Provincetown, MA. He began exploring solo-improvisation, as well as writing his solo play, TOWN MEETING, which had two sold out runs at the Provincetown Theater in June 2024 and September 2024. In June 2023, he began his theater company CODY PLAYS, which stages a new play written for a different group from Provincetown’s community. So far he has written over 40 of these one-act plays. Cody is the Provincetown Theater Playwright in Residence for 2025.