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Registration opens:
July 15th, 2025

Playwriting Workshop

Instructed by Gayle Stahlhuth

2025-07-29 16:00:00 2025-07-29 17:30:00 America/New_York Playwriting Workshop Cape May City - Multi-Purpose Room

Tuesday, July 29
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-29 16:00:00 2025-07-29 17:30:00 America/New_York Playwriting Workshop Registration REQUIRED. Cape May City - Multi-Purpose Room

Cape May City

Multi-Purpose Room

Registration REQUIRED.

All events are tentatively scheduled and may change. Please see the CMCL Events Calendar on our website, follow us on social media, and subscribe to our weekly eNewsletter for any and all updates.


Professional playwright Gayle Stahlhuth guides participants in getting dialogue going through simple writing exercises that trigger the imagination. The workshop is geared for those who have written plays, as well as those who have always wanted to try their hand at writing a play. For ages 17 on up.

Gayle will look at plays participants are working on before the workshop, but no more than one play per person.


Gayle Stahlhuth, as a playwright, has received commissions from The Smithsonian Institution, Theatreworks/USA and The Illinois and Missouri Humanities Councils, and grants from The New Jersey Humanities Council.  Her plays have been performed at a variety of locations including the NYC International Fringe Festival, The Samuel French One-Act Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Arvada Center in Denver, the Pennsylvania Stage Company, the Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis, and East Lynne Theater Company in Cape May, where she was the producing artistic director for 23 years, before founding Classic American Tales. She has taught playwriting throughout the country at theaters, universities, libraries, public schools, and conferences. For several years, she was a popular workshop leader at the now-disbanded North Wildwood Beach Writers' Conference and created an annual two-day playwriting get-away at The Henry Sawyer Inn in Cape May, which is now a private home.

Classic American Tales was founded to tell America’s stories “one tale at a time.” To learn more, visit https://www.ClassicAmericanTales.org


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Cape May City

Phone: 609-884-9568

Hours

Cape May City

Mon, Jul 14 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Tue, Jul 15 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jul 16 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Thu, Jul 17 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jul 18 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Jul 19 9:00AM to 4:30PM
Sun, Jul 20 Closed

Upcoming events

Mon, Jul 14, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Mon, Jul 14, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room
Registration is now closed

Mon, Jul 14, 10:00am - 10:30am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Mon, Jul 14, 10:00am - 10:30am
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Mon, Jul 14, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Mon, Jul 14, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Mon, Jul 14, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Upper Cape - Events Room
Registration is now closed

Mon, Jul 14, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Cape May Court House - Teen Area

Mon, Jul 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Mon, Jul 14, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Mon, Jul 14, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Mon, Jul 14, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Mon, Jul 14, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Tue, Jul 15, 9:30am - 10:30am
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Tue, Jul 15, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Tue, Jul 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Tue, Jul 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cape May City - Teen Room

Tue, Jul 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cape May Court House - Presentation Room

Tue, Jul 15, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Classroom
Registration is now closed

Tue, Jul 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cape May Court House - Teen Area

Tue, Jul 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Tue, Jul 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Tue, Jul 15, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Tue, Jul 15, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Tue, Jul 15, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Cape May Court House - Presentation Room

Tue, Jul 15, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Tue, Jul 15, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
CMCL Online - Zoom

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room
Registration is now closed

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 11:00am
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 11:00am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 11:00am
Upper Cape - Events Room

Wed, Jul 16, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Stone Harbor - Kitchen Area
This event is full

Wed, Jul 16, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Wed, Jul 16, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Jul 16, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room
Registration is now closed

Wed, Jul 16, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cape May Court House - Teen Area

Wed, Jul 16, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Cape May Court House - Board Room

Rescheduled
Wed, Jul 16, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
New date Wednesday, July 16, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Sea Isle City

Wed, Jul 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Wed, Jul 16, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Sea Isle City - Conference Room

Wed, Jul 16, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace
Registration is now closed

Wed, Jul 16, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Wed, Jul 16, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 1st Floor Events Room
This event is full

Wed, Jul 16, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Wed, Jul 16, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace
Registration is now closed

Thu, Jul 17, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Thu, Jul 17, 10:00am - 11:00am
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Thu, Jul 17, 10:00am - 11:30am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Thu, Jul 17, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Thu, Jul 17, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Thu, Jul 17, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Cape May Court House - Teen Area

Thu, Jul 17, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Thu, Jul 17, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Thu, Jul 17, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Thu, Jul 17, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Thu, Jul 17, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Cape May City - Multi-Purpose Room

Thu, Jul 17, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Thu, Jul 17, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cape May Court House - TLC Makerspace

Fri, Jul 18, 9:15am - 10:15am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Fri, Jul 18, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 11:00am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Fri, Jul 18, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Fri, Jul 18, 11:00am - 11:30am
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Fri, Jul 18, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Fri, Jul 18, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Fri, Jul 18, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 1st Floor Events Room
This event is full

Cancelled
Fri, Jul 18, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Lower Cape

Fri, Jul 18, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Woodbine - Children's Room,Events Room

Fri, Jul 18, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Upper Cape - Events Room

Sat, Jul 19, 9:30am - 10:30am
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Sat, Jul 19, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Mon, Jul 21, 9:30am - 10:30am
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Mon, Jul 21, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room
Registration is now closed

Mon, Jul 21, 10:00am - 10:30am
Lower Cape - Joseph Millman Room

Mon, Jul 21, 10:00am - 10:30am
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room

Mon, Jul 21, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Lower Cape - Public Meeting Room

Mon, Jul 21, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Upper Cape - Events Room
Registration is now closed

Mon, Jul 21, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Cape May Court House - Storytime Room

Mon, Jul 21, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Cape May Court House - Teen Area

Mon, Jul 21, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Cape May City - Events Room North,Events Room South

Mon, Jul 21, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Wildwood Crest - 1st Floor Events Room

Mon, Jul 21, 5:30pm - 6:15pm
Upper Cape - Events Room

Mon, Jul 21, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Wildwood Crest - 2nd Floor Events Room

Mon, Jul 21, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Stone Harbor - Events Room

Mon, Jul 21, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Sea Isle City - Public Meeting Room