Students will launch the project by testing how mechanics, language, and performance choices make dialogue clear, believable, and emotionally meaningful.

Students will analyze the mechanics and rhetoric of authentic-sounding dialogue, map audience and performer needs, and test emotional delivery with theater professionals. They will use evidence and feedback to frame a dialogue design challenge and select promising concepts for their narrative and short play.

Students will create and test dialogue prototypes, revise narrative and play drafts through peer and actor feedback, and assemble validated drafts, annotated decisions, and a rehearsal plan for the Showcase.

Students will present their polished narratives and collaborative short plays to classmates and Greater Baltimore Theater Project actors, gather authentic audience feedback, and reflect on how dialogue conventions and performance choices shape believable conversation.