Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. In this two-hour masterclass, he will offer an insight into his writing process and share ways of approaching writing new plays for larger spaces and audiences, without compromising urgent conversations or the desire to tackle provoking themes.
This mid-career masterclass will culminate in a Q&A where Mike will answer questions.
This masterclass is best suited to mid-career playwrights who are confidently working at studio/mid-scale and looking to scale up.
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Led by Dipo Baruwa-Etti, this three-hour masterclass will explore the process of playwriting from start to finish, with practical tips and insights which will help you to craft your identity as a writer. After exploring a playwright's toolkit, the second half of the session will allow you to put what you have learned into practice.
Attendees will be asked to bring an excerpt of their writing with them to work on with some input and guidance from Dipo. Aimed at early career theatre professionals who have some experience in playwriting. This could be from university, as a private practice in tandem with other creative work, or could be a career pivot. This is not suitable for writers who have written plays that have been staged or fully developed, or for those who have never tackled writing at all. You should have completed a first draft of a play, or a substantial proportion of a play.
This early-career masterclass will help you move beyond your first draft, covering theory and practice, equipping you with exercises and skills to unlock the next phase of your work.
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Join Kirsten Foster, agent at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, for an introduction to working with a theatrical agent. In this session, Kirsten will explore the working relationship between client and agent, with plenty of time to answer your questions.
This early-career masterclass will be useful for anyone wishing to learn more about working with an agent, whether as a playwright, director or designer.
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Hackney Young Collective is a creative community for young people aged 18-30 who want to gain experience, develop new skills, and bring ideas to life. Whether you're pursuing a career in the arts, looking to build your confidence, expand your network, or simply searching for a space where you can be creative and meet like-minded people, this project is for you.
Through hands-on theatre making, collaboration, mentoring, and real-world creative projects, you’ll work alongside industry professionals to explore new ideas, develop your practice, and create original work.
We believe that creativity thrives when people are given the opportunity to experiment, learn from one another, and be part of something bigger than themselves.
This is a place to build skills, discover opportunities, form meaningful connections, and take the next step in your creative journey.
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Join a collective of 16-21 year-old young performers and creatives where your ideas take centre stage.
You'll be mentored by Ashlee Elizabeth Lolo – writer, award-winning journalist and facilitator, whose work includes the BBC, Channel 4, National Theatre, Talawa Theatre Company and Birmingham Hippodrome.
Be rewarded for your commitment. Receive £30 per session in All4One vouchers, plus artist workshops, creative mentoring, skills development and great snacks.
Together you'll create bold new performance, produce live events, develop a collective manifesto, showcase your talent and use your voice to make an impact.
This isn't a drop-in. We're looking for young people who are ready to commit, collaborate and create something unforgettable.
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Emma Rice Company Training Programme is offering a unique opportunity for theatre makers aged 18+. The theatre-maker taster is a free, day-long workshop.
In this practical workshop, members of our Tristan & Yseult show team will introduce participants to the Emma Rice Company method. You will play games, learn songs and devise. You will experience first-hand how Emma Rice Company builds an ensemble and creates their critically acclaimed shows.
Actors, singers, musicians, dancers, directors, acrobats, clowns, and theatre-makers are all invited to apply. You don’t need loads of experience, but you do need to be a confident performer.
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Led by award-winning director and writer Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (Deep Azure, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Pig Heart Boy) and award-winning playwright and dramaturg Somebody Jones (winner of the Tony Craze Award, finalist for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting), this five-day playwriting intensive will help you kick-start and develop your next piece of theatre.
Using Tristan's own Tell Me A Tale Method — a practical framework for building story from the inside out — you'll develop a bold script set in the Speculative world (fantasy, sci-fi, horror), working across devising, structure, character, dramaturgy and world-building.
Expect hands-on exercises, elements of embodied practice (no performance experience necessary), and a safe, creative space to explore the fantastical and unlock your writing — including through physical work on your feet.
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After the announcement of its closure, Forest Forge has allocated remaining funds to support local artists and organisations with grants of between £500 – £5,000.
In 2026 Forest Forge Theatre Company announced its closure after 45 years of making and touring theatre in the New Forest. As the journey comes to an end, the team are eager to support artists and cultural community organisations in the New Forest via some small commissions. We hope that by providing small pots of funding we can support sustainability and can seed fund new ideas.
We have ringfenced some of our remaining funds to support local artists and organisations with grants of between £500 – £5,000. We anticipate making between 5 – 10 Forge Ahead Commission grants.
Projects should deliver activity within one of our three areas of activity:
We are also especially excited to support projects and ideas that complement the Forest Forge ethos; those that are playful, heartfelt, joyful and irreverent.
Funds can be used for any number of costs including artist fees, travel, room hire, materials, marketing, training and can be used as match funding.
We welcome applications from:
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Grants are made at the discretion of the trustees and decisions are final. Successful applicants will be required to report back to a Forest Forge Trustee after the closure of the company.
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This year Cork Theatre Collective are looking for three pieces of theatre in development to present as works-in-progress for audiences during SHOW, on 27, 28 and 29 November 2026.
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Access costs are covered separately
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Join playwright and associate artist Carl Grose and Spymonkey founder and co-artistic director Toby Park as they attempt to crack open the mysterious, maddening and utterly marvelous process of how to go about writing a show for Spymonkey.
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Why we think it is important:
Spymonkey worked for many years as a devising company. We took a huge step forwards in our creative process when we began working with a writer, and as it happens the first writer we ever worked with was Carl, for Oedipussy. It was a revelation, and we couldn’t understand why we hadn’t done it sooner! The writer brings so much to our intensely collaborative process: provocations for improvisation exercises, hot-seating, taking on the task of dramaturgical structure, of character arc, sifting and compressing the hours of improvisation, creative meetings with designers and directors and ridiculous conversations over tea breaks. And of course for the actual nuts-and-bolts of script-writing. Since then we’ve worked with a load of writers, but we keep coming back to working with Carl because he is brilliant and he understands Clown and our Theatre of the Funny.
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Please note: There will be writing involved, but we also find it essential to explore writing practically and on its feet. All participants will be encourages to join in the work and support the development of others so writers come expecting to get up and play, and performers ready with their pen (or laptop).
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Calling all university students! Spymonkey are offering a 50% discount on this workshop with the promocode SPYMONKEY50 and Name of Uni.
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