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Writing for the Stage-Are you telling an engaging story?
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Are you an aspiring playwright?
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Do you have ideas for a play but not sure how to get started?
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Are you having writer’s block?
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Have you written play but you’re struggling to make rewrites?
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Do you have play you’ve been sending to theatres but it’s not getting picked up?
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Are you serious about your writing career?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions here is an opportunity to do something about it.
Writing for the Stage led by Jennifer Farmer.
This one day intensive workshop helps new writers of all levels develop an idea or a play they are working on.
The workshop will cover dialogue, character development and plot using writing exercises and sharing work.
Dates to be announced soon
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Jennifer Farmer
A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jennifer was named one of the country's newest theatre talents by The Guardian in 2004. Also in 2004 her play Compact Failure, commissioned by Clean Break, premièred to critical acclaim. Her work includes clean (BBC Radio 3, 2003), 270° (Young Vic, 2004), A Million Different People (BBC Radio 4, 2005), words, words, words (Tricycle Theatre, 2006) , Bulletproof Soul (Birmingham Rep, 2007; short-listed for the 2008 Brian Way Award), Stutter (Hotbed Festival, 2008), Urban Dreams (London Bubble, 2008), These Four Streets (Birmingham Rep, 2009), thefadingcity (Southbank Centre, 2010) and plays for the Bush Theatre, Paines Plough and BBC Radio 3. Her plays are published by Oberon Books, Josef Weinberger Plays and BRAND literary magazine. Jennifer has been a visiting lecturer at both the University of Greenwich and London South Bank University and she has facilitated workshops for Soho Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Royal Court, Central School of Speech and Drama and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 2009, Jennifer co-founded Coffee+Sponge, a collaborative cross-genre arts company, with visual artist Samuel Overington. Together they create theatre/art installation, film and life drawing salons that is both epic and intimate, transient and permanent. |
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