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Although it is free to submit a screenplay for consideration, note that if selected the fee to have a script workshopped is about $475 depending on length.
Often writers procrastinate and thrash too long in revisions before submitting a screenplay. Other times we receive screenplays that simply aren't ready. Submitting your screenpaly for a reading is one way to find out where your screenplay stands. We want it to be a positive experience.
Typical fees with a 100-page screenplay (cost varies depending on length)
$400 workshop reading (100 pages * $4)
$ 75 printing costs (100 pages * $0.03/page * 25 copies)
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$475 total
For organizing and casting the workshop the fee is $4/page.
Printing, so the actors have paper copies of the script to read, costs three cents a page. We usually print 25 scripts -- 15 for the actors and 10 copies for the audience.
The workshop and printing fees are required. Any other services are optional.
Video enables writers who can't be present in person to benefit from a workshop reading. Writers as far away as Belgium have had their screenplays workshopped and then reviewed it on video.
For an additional $100 a documentary-style video shoot of the reading, for purposes of review only, is available. Be sure to make any arrangements ahead of time regarding shooting video. It isn't automatically provided.
The workshop is free in the sense that you can attend for free when not having your own screenplay read. Half the feedback you hear on someone else's screenplay will probably apply to yours, too. When workshopping a screenplay we charge the writer because the event is primarily done for his or her benefit.
Just for reference, to be a student at USC costs $42,514 per year. For writers the WGA Schedule of Minimums for selling an original screenplay is $48,738 for low budget films (<$5M) and $91,495 for high budget films.
We cast and workshop original screenplays weekly, the only organization in Los Angeles to do so. To do that competently week after week requires staff. Please support us so we can continue to make this valuable resource available in Hollywood.
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We read scripts of all genres.
We always workshop scripts by reading from start-to-finish with analysis and feedback immediately afterwards. Usually it is a single feature script in one evening. Sometimes we read shorts or TV pilots.
Yes, please come to a workshop. That's the best way to understand the advantages, to see what the experience is like. It is free to come to the readings as audience. No reservation necessary. Note that the most valuable part to writers is the feedback session after the reading, not the reading itself.
Good luck and happy writing!