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Writer’s Avenue is a London based theatre company that discovers and supports new writers from all backgrounds in the UK. We look for exciting and contemporary voices that we can nurture and our goal is to help new writers progress with their careers.
Writer’s Avenue runs writing competitions which provides new writers with a platform to showcase their work and receive feedback from both the literary department as well as the audience of a paying public.
The Literary Department are dedicated to finding plays that deliver compelling stories that resonate with a contemporary audience. We look for thought provoking plays that explore original themes, plays that ask questions about the society and world we live in today and plays that entertain.
Sandra Quartey
Artistic Director & Producer
Sandra sees potential for great stage stories all around her, she has worked with individuals that would make great characters and is currently working on a new play herself! She started Writer’s Avenue in September 2009 as a response to meeting people who expressed a desire to write plays but felt held back by a lack of opportunities and confidence. She believes the events and structure of Writer’s Avenue is the best way to address this.
Sandra trained at The BRIT School of Performing Arts. She has a BA in Modern Drama Studies and Creative Writing from Brunel and an Acting MA from East 15 Acting School. She worked with Talawa Theatre Company when she was picked for the 2008 TYPT. She went on to produce an early version of her play Water Under the Bridge at the White Bear Theatre. Sandra was offered a place on Identity's Typecast writing course led by Che Walker in association with Shadow Arts Entertainment in 2009. To view Sandra's spotlight CV and showreel visit http://www.spotlight.com/6217-9088-7368
She has been a drama workshop leader for Tricycle Theatre, Trap Media, Theatretrain and Stagecoach Performing Arts Company. As an actress Sandra also wants Writer’s Avenue to create opportunities for actors and directors to keep their skills active and to give them opportunities to showcase thier talent and network. The play she will always remember is Shakespeare's Macbeth. Though it's a classical play its themes are timeless.
Caro Dixey
Literary Manager
When not immersed in all forms theatre, Caro can be found indulging in her other passion cricket. It’s a game that emulates how Caro wishes to live her life: with structure, honour, fun, occasional excitement and the endurance to last the course. She is currently working one a one-woman play about the great game.
She has a BA in Music with Drama and an MA from the Central School of Speech and Drama specialising in Dramaturgy. She works as a freelance dramaturge and has worked with Syndromus Theatre Company (Still, also as co-writer) and Universal Citizen(Quango 193). A stint at the world renowed Goodman theatre in Chicago, saw her working on some fantastic productions including Brett C Leonard’s The Long Red Road directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sarah Kane’s Blasted changed her life.
Giles Cole
Reader
Giles is a playwright and his his most recent play The Art of Concelament can be seen at Jermyn Street between 9th and 2928th January.
Giles has spent half a lifetime trying to grow out of his youthful passion for theatre, but is now happily resigned to wholehearted failure in that regard. He has had seven plays produced for BBC Radio 4 and his most recent stage play, The Art of Concealment, about the life of Terence Rattigan, was performed on the Brighton Festival Fringe 2011. He has worked in the BBC TV script unit, on the script panel of Croydon Warehouse Theatre and as a reviewer for Whatsonstage.com. He chaired the theatre panel for the Writers’ Guild Awards for six years and is completing a postgraduate degree course in Creative Writing (Plays and Screenplays) at City University. A play he will always remember is the RSC production of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade (revived at Stratford in 2011).
Graeme Thompson
Graeme has a BA in Theatre Dramaturgy and an MA in Performance from the University of Leeds. He works as a freelance script reader and dramaturg and has worked with The West Yorkshire Playhouse. He also workd frequently at The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and Theatre 503. He has also worked in the programming department of The Albany. He will always remember the experience of seeing Woman in Black.
June Trask
June is a playwright, director and drama teacher. Her plays include Shelter, produced as part of The Five Tenners programme at Wickham Theatre in Bristol and Can You Hear Me? (2010) a touring school play about cultural awareness for the Cornwall LEA.
As a director she has over 60 small and large productions under her belt, including productions for Writer’s avenue 2010 season. She is currently working on a play about cyber bullying and will direct at the 2011 Barnstaple Fringe TheatreFest. June has a BA in English/Drama, an MA in creative writing and a MLitt in directing Shakespeare and a diploma in Creative Writing for Performance.
Meriel Paisley
Reader
Meriel has a BA in Drama from Bristol. She has been working in TV for two and a half years, largely in comedy, on shows such as 8 out of 10 Cats, Room 101 and Shooting Stars. Meriel joined Writer's Avenue as a reader in July, and has a keen interest in new writing and script development.
Naa Wallace-Davies
Marketing & Development; Reader
Naa is a seasoned daydreamer. Though she will never be trusted to fly a plane, at least she’ll always have her imagination as a vital tool to tell people about Writer’s Avenue and to eke out the best of the submissions. She has a BA in Film Production specialising in writing screenplays. She writes and makes short films, one of which, Pudding, opened the 2007 Cornish Film Festival. She has worked as a camera assistant in feature films and TV dramas including ITV’s Poirot. She believes everyone should hear the radio play Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall at least once.
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