Open Submissions Workshops
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -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 creativity and take you from idea to draft. New episodes each Wednesday until 2 September 2020. At the Traverse Theatre we are champions of stories and storytellers. The stories we share are by anyone and for everyone. To find out more about our work, and to see your script on our stages, visit our website traverse.co.uk.
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Episodes
How to Pitch Your Plays to Theatres with Gareth Nicholls
August 26, 2020 10:09 - 22 minutes - 41.1 MBFor 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Meet the Writers behind Breakfast Plays: New Tracks
August 19, 2020 09:39 - 17 minutes - 31.7 MBThe Breakfast Plays, returns this year as a podcast. Breakfast Plays: New Tracks will be available wherever you get your podcasts from Monday. In celebration, we wanted to introduce you to the writers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Quick-fire Questions & Advice from Playwrights
August 12, 2020 05:43 - 26 minutes - 59.7 MBIn this episode some familiar voices that you've heard throughout the series will tackle some quick-fire playwriting related questions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Open Submissions Reader Interviews
August 05, 2020 11:15 - 21 minutes - 39.8 MBLiterary Associate, Eleanor White speaks to four members of our readers panel to find out what they look out for when reading scripts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Representing Working-Class Voices with Debbie Hannan & Nessah Muthy
July 29, 2020 11:33 - 48 minutes - 88.6 MB'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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Writing for Yourself to Perform with Julia Taudevin
July 22, 2020 12:26 - 49 minutes - 113 MBThis week’s Open Submissions workshop led by Julia Taudevin is filled with advice, anecdotes and exercises for the writer-performer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
What Is Said and What Is Not Said with Oliver Emanuel
July 14, 2020 21:04 - 27 minutes - 50.2 MBOliver 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Can Playwriting be a Science? with Meghan Tyler
July 08, 2020 09:23 - 21 minutes - 39.4 MBPercentages, 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Writing Dialogue with Clare Duffy
July 01, 2020 11:32 - 36 minutes - 67.5 MBIn this week's Open Submissions Workshop, Clare Duffy gives her tops tips and advice for what to consider when writing dialogue. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Writing with, and Representing Disability With Matilda Ibini and Natasha Sutton Williams.
June 24, 2020 12:29 - 47 minutes - 86.2 MB'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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Telling It Your Own Way with Hannah Lavery
June 18, 2020 17:48 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBGet 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Open Submissions 2019 Alumni Interviews
June 18, 2020 16:35 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBWith Eva Edo, David Finnigan, Natalie McGrath, Rachael O’Connor & Hugo Timbrell. Interviewed by Eleanor White. For this week's session, our Literary Associate, Eleanor White, interviewed the five selected playwrights from last year's window to hear how the process impacted and benefitted them as a writer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Finding Inspiration with Douglas Maxwell
June 18, 2020 16:13 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBWorried that your writing isn't good enough? Douglas Maxwell says he's made every mistake there is. In this week's workshop, he takes you through the changes he's made to make his plays better. It's kinda like a therapy session for playwrights. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Getting Started with Frances Poet
June 18, 2020 15:33 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBGot a great idea for a script but struggling to get started? Never fear, Frances Poet's workshop is here! In our third Open Submissions Workshop Frances shares the different methods she used to get started on three of her plays; Adam, Gut and Maggie May. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Your Questions Answered
June 18, 2020 15:20 - 8 minutes - 18.6 MBHave a question about the series or our Open Submissions process? This episode should have the answer! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
An Introduction to Open Submissions Workshops
June 04, 2020 16:18 - 9 minutes - 8.32 MBThis first workshop covers what you can expect from the Open Submissions Workshop series, some more information about the Traverse Theatre, exactly what's involved in our Open Submissions initiative, and what we're on the lookout for. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.