Shakespeare Theatre Company × Next Door Multimedia

The End of Busy Work

An AI workshop where you don't watch — you build. Friday, August 21, 2026 at STC's Admin Office, 516 8th St SE, Washington DC.

Staff · 10:00a – 2:00pBoard · 4:00p – 8:00pBring a laptop + charger

The running order

One fast, interactive talk. Then the bulk of the day: hands-on building, in teams, on the boring parts of your actual job. “Action is eloquence.”

Friday, Aug 21

Hour 1The talk — you'll be typing ideas from your phone the whole time
Break15 minutes, then teams of 2–3
BuildRough, imperfect, working — tools for your own role
CloseShare-out + pick what we keep building

The four weeks after

WeeklyOffice hours — bring anything you're stuck on
Bookable1:1 sessions to finish your build (first-come)
Sept 14+Hackathon showcase — 3-minute demos, real tools, real hours saved

Today is the start, not the whole show.

Places, please — three things before the day

Do these now and the workshop is spent building, not troubleshooting.

1

Create a free Claude account at claude.ai — it's our primary build platform for the day.

Free plan is plenty. No credit card. Takes two minutes — use your work email.
2

Log in on the laptop you're bringing. A phone isn't enough for the build block.

Already living in ChatGPT or Grok? Bring those logins too — we'll put them to work in the Hermes + OpenClaw segment on agents.
3

Tell us about you below — two minutes, and it's how the content gets tailored to your actual week.

No patron or donor data will be used at any point in the workshop — made-up and public data only, per STC's IT guidance.