503Studio: Character Development

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503Studio Masterclass: Character Development, Katie Redford

Katie Redford will lead a masterclass on making your characters as authentic as possible. This will include exercises to get to know your character, writing scenes that help us get to know how they’d react in certain situations and honing in on those finer details to bring them to life as richly as possible.

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Date: Thursday 8 June 2023

Time: 7pm – 9.30pm

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

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Katie Redford is a BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy Winner. She was on the BBC Comedy Writersroom and Soho Theatre Writers Lab. She is currently listed on the BBC New Talent Hot List.

Her short film ‘GHOSTED’ starring Alison Steadman, which she co-wrote, produced & performed in, received the BFI Network award in association with Film Hub Midlands. Her debut audio drama ‘YELLOW LIPS’ aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2021, which she also plays the lead in and was nominated for The Imison Award. She has various television scripts in commissioned development and her debut stage play TAPPED went into production at Theatre503 in April 2022. It was published by Nick Hern books and Katie received an Offie nomination for Most Promising New Playwright. Her second radio play ‘CHRISTMAS WINGS’ starring Nikesh Patel & Fiona Button aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2022. This drama started as a Rapid Write Response piece for Theatre503.

Katie has also blogged for Spotlight and BBC Writersroom.