Open Submissions Workshops

By Traverse Theatre

Want to write a play? We'll teach you how. Taught by leading playwrights and theatremakers, this 16-week course will support you - and fellow aspiring writers - to unleash your creati... more

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The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.

Open Submissions Workshops episodes:

August 26, 2020 How to Pitch Your Plays to Theatres with Gareth Nicholls
For this episode, the final in the series, our Co-Artistic Director, Gareth Nicholls walks you through the process of pitching your play to theatres, from research right through to building an ongoing relationship with a company.
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23min
August 12, 2020 Quick-fire Questions & Advice from Playwrights
In this episode some familiar voices that you've heard throughout the series will tackle some quick-fire playwriting related questions.
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27min
August 05, 2020 Open Submissions Reader Interviews
Literary Associate, Eleanor White speaks to four members of our readers panel to find out what they look out for when reading scripts.
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22min
July 29, 2020 Representing Working-Class Voices with Debbie Hannan & Nessah Muthy
'Just keep writing. Keep telling the story that you want to tell, the story that you don't see and that needs to be centre stage.'

Grab yourself a cuppa and settle in as Debbie Hannan and Nessah Muthy chat about how to represent working-class voices in theatre.

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49min
July 22, 2020 Writing for Yourself to Perform with Julia Taudevin
This week’s Open Submissions workshop led by Julia Taudevin is filled with advice, anecdotes and exercises for the writer-performer.
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50min
July 14, 2020 What Is Said and What Is Not Said with Oliver Emanuel
Oliver Emanuel's Open Submissions Workshop on dramatic tension gives you a healthy dose of playwriting knowledge by using your 5-a-day. Intrigued? Listen and find out for yourself.
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28min
July 08, 2020 Can Playwriting be a Science? with Meghan Tyler
Percentages, chemical reactions and graphs - they don't have anything to do with playwriting, right? In this week's Open Submissions Workshop, Meghan Tyler shares the theory that playwriting can be a science.
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22min
July 01, 2020 Writing Dialogue with Clare Duffy
In this week's Open Submissions Workshop, Clare Duffy gives her tops tips and advice for what to consider when writing dialogue.
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37min
June 24, 2020 Writing with, and Representing Disability With Matilda Ibini and Natasha Sutton Williams.
'Your responsibility as a storyteller is to represent the world and the people in it.' In this Open Submissions Workshop, Matilda Ibini and Natasha Sutton Williams discuss writing with and representing disability in your work.
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48min
June 18, 2020 Telling It Your Own Way with Hannah Lavery
Get your pens at the ready for this week's Open Submissions workshop with Hannah Lavery (The Drift, The Lamet for Sheku Bayoh), as she takes you through two exercises that have helped her writing.
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52min

FAQs about Open Submissions Workshops:

How many episodes does Open Submissions Workshops have?

The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.