503Studio: What I Wish I Had Known About Playwriting At the Start

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503Studio Masterclass: What I Wish I Had Known About Playwriting At The Start, David Eldridge

I’ve been a professional playwright for 27 years now and apart from wondering where all the time has gone, I’ve picked up a thing or two I wish I could tell my younger self. How do you find a way of writing that allows you to make your best work? What is the best contribution a writer can make when their play is in production? How do you navigate the sometimes-tricky process of rewriting and collaborating with a creative team and management? How do you make money and survive? How do you keep mentally well? How do you manage not to alienate all your friends and loved ones while exploring the worlds you share?

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Time: 7pm – 9.30pm

Running time of workshop: 2.5 hours – delivered online. Maximum class sizes are 14.

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David Eldridge is a playwright and screenwriter. Theatre credits include: Middle (Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre); Beginning (Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre & West End); Market Boy (Olivier Theatre, National Theatre); Holy Warriors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Miss Julie, The Lady from the Sea (Royal Exchange, Manchester); In Basildon, Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness, Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court & West End); Something, Someone, Somewhere (Sixty-Six Books/Bush Theatre); MAD, Serving it Up (Bush); The Knot of the Heart (Almeida), Festen (Almeida, Lyric West End & Broadway); The Stock Da’wa, Falling (Hampstead); A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (with Robert Holman & Simon Stephens, Lyric Hammersmith); Babylone (Belgrade Coventry); John Gabriel Borkman, The Wild Duck, Summer Begins (Donmar Warehouse); A Week With Tony, Fighting for Breath (Finborough); Thanks Mum (Red Room); Dirty (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Cabbage for, Tea, Tea, Tea! (Platform 4 Exeter).