2011/2012 Mentees Announced!
Playwrights' Studio, Scotland are delighted to announce that our successful mentees for 2011/12 are: Ali Maloney, Julie Tsang, Kris Haddow, Lindsay Miller, Phil Baarda and Chantelle Higham, who will be mentored by: Paddy Cunneen, Isabel Wright and Douglas Maxwell.
Every year the Playwrights’ Studio offers an opportunity for new playwrights to be mentored by established playwrights. This is an amazing chance to improve your writing skills and gain valuable insights into the playwriting process.
Details of the 2012/13 Mentoring programme will be announced in spring 2012.
Eligible Applicants
You should be an emerging playwright, living in Scotland or from Scotland and living elsewhere, with a particular play you hope to develop during your mentoring time. You do not need to have been produced in order to qualify.
You should be available from October 2012 for six months to work on your script regularly. Mentees will be matched with a mentor in September and will remain in communication with this mentor over the six month working period.
Comments from Former Mentees:
"I learnt a great deal. To read my own work from a greater distance. To allow my writing to connect not just to the audience, but firstly to the performers and the director."
"It was pivotal in helping me develop the piece. The generosity and encouragemnt of [my mentor] in pointing out areas for improvement, and also sharing his own experiences as an established writer were invaluable"
"[My mentor] has been great to work with. So enthusiastic and encouraging and honest. To have that level of expertise and insight available has changed the way I work. Thank you."
Past Mentoring Sessions:
For 2010/11 the writers Kate Davidson, Fiona Walton, Mark MacNicol and Pauline Goldsmith were chosen to be mentored by Associate Playwrights Davey Anderson and Nicola McCartney.
In 2009/10 the writers, Rachel Clive, James Ley, John McCann and Mairead Martin were chosen to be mentored by Chris Dolan and Nicola McCartney.
In 2008/09 the writers, George Aza-Selinger, Abigail Docherty, Becky Leach, Lisa Nicoll and James Oakley were chosen to be mentored by Iain F. MacLeod, Chris Dolan and Tanika Gupta.
In 2007/08 the writers, Charlotte Allan, Rob Drummond, Brian Logan, Kieran Lynn, Clare McGarry, and Lynda Radley were chosen to be mentored by Douglas Maxwell, Iain F. MacLeod and Rona Munro.
In 2006/07 the writers selected were: Martin Brocklehurst, Karen Barclay, Ian Low, Kenny McKenna, Lynsey Murdoch and Cormac Quinn. These writers were mentored by Douglas Maxwell, Chris Deans and Anne Marie Di Mambro
For 2005/6 the Playwrights' Studio selected the following six writers to be mentored by Associate Playwrights Chris Hannan, Peter Arnott and John Clifford: Robyn Hunt, Maryam Hamidi, Raman Mundair, Martin Travers, Eleanor Stewart and Caroline Campbell.
In 2004/5 the Playwrights' Studio mentored: Yvonne Caddell, Liam Hurley, Louise E Knowles, Lis Lee, Iain McClure and Kathy McKean.
Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
Telephone: 0141-332-4403
Textphone: 0141-332-3208
E-mail: info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk
Charity Number: SC036767
Top image :: 365 by David Harrower, National Theatre of Scotland production, actors: Sin Hun Li, Rebecca Smith, Ryan Fletcher, Ashley Smith, Helen Mallon, Ben Presley, Marlene Madenge, Laura McMonagle, John Paul McCue, photo by Mark Hamilton
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