New Writing South
A nurturing, safe and inspiring space where a group of talented playwrights can flourish.
This unique six-month project offers playwrights the chance to belong to a supportive and nurturing workshop group. Based at Brighton’s Theatre Royal, the group will develop either a new play or work on an existing draft.
Each playwright will develop their own piece of drama, and draw inspiration and guidance from a clear and structured process. You will explore premise, plot, structure, conflict, scene writing, pace, dialogue, entrances and exits. In addition there will be guest sessions from leading practitioners - actors, directors, set designers; a required reading list of plays and theatre visits. This project puts character at the heart of drama.
Playwrights will be expected to come to the first session with a starting point and will be supplied with a reading list.
Julie Everton is a prize winning playwright, screenwriter, and script editor and writing coach. Her first play, PIG IN A POKE, won the Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival. She then won a writer’s bursary from the National Theatre Studio, and wrote five other plays for stage, before moving into screenwriting. She was chosen to participate in the BBC’s New Writers for Drama Series in 2002 and wrote sketches for BBC Schools, and for the relaunched daytime soap CROSSROADS.