Blinn College-Brenham introduces new Script Analysis class for the Spring semester

Published playwright Brad Nies will teach course

November 13, 2020

George Clooney, noted actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, summed up the importance of a good script: “It’s possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can’t make a good movie from a bad script.”

The Blinn College-Brenham Theatre Arts Program is offering a new course called “Script Analysis” during the upcoming Spring semester. The course will be delivered concurrently to students in the classroom and those taking classes remotely.

It will be taught by Brad Nies, Theatre Arts Program Director, who has had eight plays published: “Miss Imogene’s Prize-Winning Roses,” “Interpretations of a Murder,” “Tea Time,” “Minor Inconveniences,” “Perfect Mother,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “Haunting the House,” and “The Boys from Houston Heights.”

“Students interested in directing, designing, acting, technical theatre, and playwriting will learn how to break a script down,” he said, “as well as understand the playwright’s social and cultural context within the script.”

Nies received the Texas Educational Theatre Association’s Texas PlayFest Playwriting Award in 2012 for his three-act comedy “odd Tales.” In 2017, his “Boys of Houston Heights” was selected and presented by Dirt Dogs Theatre Company as part of the Queensbury Theatre’s 2017 New Works Series.

Blinn offers its Associate of Arts Degree in Theatre on the Brenham and Bryan campuses. For more information, visit www.blinn.edu/theatre.

Registration is now available for Blinn’s Winter Minimester, which begins Monday, Dec. 14, and the Spring semester, which begins Tuesday, Jan. 19.