Writer-Performer Workshop Series
Friends Meetings House, Ship Street, Brighton , BN1 1AF
We’re running three workshops to help kickstart your journey as a writer-performer.
Maybe you want to write some material for the stage, but don’t know where to start.
Maybe you’ve got dreams of doing a Fringe show, but need some specific advice about how to do it.
You might have the beginnings of a script, a character, or a monologue, but need a place to develop it.
Or maybe you don’t have anything yet, but you really want to make something.
Wherever you’re at on your writer-performer journey, join us to develop key solo-theatre making skills and connect with other people.
In this workshop series, every writer-performer will be supported to create five minutes of material. This should equip you with some skills to keep making work outside of the room as you continue to build the piece.
Connect with and be part of a supportive group of peers over the three weeks and beyond.
As this is a workshop series, you must sign up for the block of three to attend.
Thursday 12 June 2025, 6-8 pm
Character Development and Writing
Thursday 19 June 2025, 6-8 pm
Creating Action and Scene
Thursday 26 June 2025, 6-8 pm
Staging a Performance
These workshops are intended to share a combination of tools and skills that will equip any writer-performer with valuable tools, including:
- Writing character-driven work
- Developing conflict in a script
- Making specific choices
- Creating clear physical action
- Investing in the world of the play
- Effective staging
- Using music and objects
Where: All three workshops will take place at Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF.
Cost: As with all our activities, these workshops are Pay What You Decide. We are a small charity dedicated to making our workshops affordable for everyone, but we have very limited resources. Please select a price point that is affordable for you for all three workshops.
About the facilitator
The workshops will be run by Jack Parris, Associate Director at Brighton People’s Theatre, writer of Born and Bread (Brighton Festival 2024) and The Unstoppable Rise of Ben Manager (Off-Fest nominated show 2024 ). He will be taking the latter to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2025 as the winner of the Charlie Hartill fund for 2025.
If you have any questions about these workshops or access requirements you would like to discuss, please feel free to email [email protected].
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