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Masterclasses

Our Masterclass series connects Northern playwrights through online workshops, offering a creative space to investigate the craft of writing for stage, screen and radio. Led by writers from the Box of Tricks family, workshops interrogate various topics and explore different approaches to writing.

Registration is Pay What You Decide (PWYD) donation (minimum £1). All donations go directly towards our PlayMakers Appeal with every penny raised reinvested in playwrights and theatremakers so that they can do what they do best: make plays.

Masterclass Video Archive

Season Four: October 2022 - January 2023

 

Check out our video archive of Masterclasses: Season Four...

1. Deconstructing Good with Luke Barnes
2. From Page to Screen: Adapting a Novel with Ella Greenhill 
3. Stories of Self with David Judge
4. Outlines, treatments and pitches with Becky Prestwich
5. Structure Serving Narrative with Daneka Etchells
6. Finding Your Voice as a Writer with Conway McDermott 

≡ Click on the Playlist icon (top right of video) to select which Masterclass you want to watch.

Season Three: November 2021 - March 2022


Check out our video archive of Masterclasses: Season Three...

1. Breaking the Fourth Wall: Writing for non-theatrical spaces with Becky Prestwich & Alison Carr
2. Endings: Finishing that Play with Patrick Hughes
3. Finding Inspiration with Siân Owen
4. Theatre in Translation with Danny Millar
5. Writing a One Person Show with Rob Ward
6. Q&A with Vinay Patel

≡ Click on the Playlist icon (top right of video) to select which Masterclass you want to watch.

Season Two: April - June 2021


Check out our video archive of Masterclasses: Season Two...

1. Karla-Marie Sweet: Surviving the Industry
2. Billie Collins: Developing Your First Play
3. Ella Greenhill: Writing for Continuing Drama
4. Lindsay Rodden: The Early Days of a Better Nation
5. Furquan Akhtar: Q&A on writing for TV and Radio
6. Chris Hoyle: Writing Dialogue

≡ Click on the Playlist icon (top right of video) to select which Masterclass you want to watch.

Season One: July - October 2020


Check out our video archive of Masterclasses: Season One...

1. Exercise for Creative Muscles with David Judge
2. Group Dynamics with Tom Morton-Smith
3. Character & Dialogue with Chris Hoyle
4. Storytelling Devices with Keisha Thompson
5. Redrafting - Preliminary Exercise with Becky Prestwich
6. Redrafting with Becky Prestwich
7. Writing Theatrically with Lizzie Nunnery
8. Q&A with playwright Alison Carr
9. Writing Pantomime with Al Lockhart-Morley

≡ Click on the Playlist icon (top right of video) to select which Masterclass you want to watch.