From Research to Story: Writing for an Audience with Reagan Venturi (3MT® Training Workshop – Open to All Graduate Students))

Your research has a story. How do you find it—and put it into words that people will remember?

Join Reagan Venturi, a Ph.D. student in Theatre and dramaturg specializing in New Play Development, for an interactive workshop that brings techniques from theatre and playwriting into research communication. Drawing on the idea that “plays are not about the day nothing happened,” you’ll consider what creates movement in your own research story and explore how hooks, conflict and resolution, patterns, vivid imagery, and memorable endings can make complex ideas more engaging.

You’ll also put those ideas into practice through writing: identifying the problem your work addresses, explaining what you did and learned, communicating its significance, and thinking intentionally about the final idea or image you want to leave with your audience. 3MT Script Work Venturi brings the perspective of both a researcher and theatre practitioner; in addition to her doctoral research, she teaches acting at Mizzou and works as a dramaturg.

Open to all graduate students. The techniques from this workshop can strengthen research talks, conference presentations, pitches, 3MT® presentations, and other situations where you need to communicate your work clearly and memorably.