Always wanted to write comedy? Find your comedic voice and take your ideas from page to stage in a four-day intensive comedy writing and performing workshop with Emmy-winning original Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts. The workshop will culminate in a live performance following the Saturday family matinee.

Anne Beatts won two Emmys as a writer for the original Saturday Night Live. She and her writing partner. Rosie Shuster, created many of the memorable characters, including Todd and Lisa Loopner, Uncle Roy and Irwin Mainway, among others. She also created and produced the critically-acclaimed CBS sitcom Square Pegs, and co-executive-produced the first year of NBC’s long-running hit series A Different World. At present she is cowriting an hour-long drama series pilot featuring the Blues Brothers. She and her producing partner, Eve Brandstein, are currently working on a documentary about women in comedy, The Girl in the Room. In 1999, she returned to Saturday Night Live as a writer and creative consultant on NBC’s Emmy-winning 25th anniversary special.

She was the first woman contributing editor for National Lampoon and both performed and wrote for the National Lampoon Radio Hour. She has been published in numerous magazines.

As well as teaching sketch comedy writing and performing privately, she is an adjunct professor in the writing division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where she created a course in writing for late-night television.

The workshop runs from August 11 through August 13 from 9 a.m. to noon, and on August 14 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Yard in Chilmark. The cost is $300. Space is limited to 25 people. The event is open to high school students with permission. To register call 508-645-9662 or visit dancetheyard.org.