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DEVELOP YOUR SKILLS
A series of free masterclasses for early-career artists, exploring creative practice and offering practical skills for navigating artistic careers.
Masterclasses are open for registration roughly four weeks in advance, through sign-up forms available below. To be notified when future masterclasses are open for registration, please sign up to our Artist Development mailing list here.
All our masterclasses are free to access. You will be notified by email if we are able to offer you a place. Our events have a limited capacity, and we want to ensure that as many people as possible can benefit from them, so please only register if you plan to attend.
Develop your playwriting toolkit
Wed 21 Oct, 2–5pm
Greene Studio, The Old Vic
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 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.
About Dipo Baruwa-Etti
Dipo Baruwa-Etti is a playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg and director. As writer-director, his short films include the award-winning The Last Days (BFI Network/BBC/Tannahill Productions). As a playwright, his work includes The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (Theatre Royal Stratford East), An unfinished man (The Yard Theatre), Half-Empty Glasses (Paines Plough) and The Clinic (Almeida Theatre), all published by Faber. He has been shortlisted for Evening Standard, George Devine, JMK and Alfred Fagon Awards, and been Writer-on-attachment at Almeida Theatre and Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre. He currently sits on the board of Shakespeare’s Globe and is New Work Associate at The Yard Theatre.
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