Box office: 020 7978 7040
A playwriting course for newcomers. Led by Somebody Jones who will take 5 sessions to get you to a point where you are ready to write.
Dates/Times: Tuesday’s, 7pm – 9:30pm. 11th February, 18th February, 25th February, 4th March and 11th March.
Running time of each workshop: 2.5 hours – delivered online via Zoom. Maximum class sizes are 16. A portion of spaces have been reserved for Share the Drama places.
Tuesday 11th February 2025 – Beginnings — inciting incident & stakes
Tuesday 18th February 2025 – Beginnings part 2 — exposition
Tuesday 25th February 2025 – Middles — characters, their stakes & obstacles
Tuesday 4th March 2025 – Middles part 2 — tackling writer’s block
Tuesday 11th March 2025 – Endings — how is this world and the characters forever changed?
Thanks to our Share The Drama scheme, we want to make sure those of you who are struggling in the current climate can still take part in our Writers Programme. If you would like to book a Share The Drama bursary for the Writer’s Programme, please call our box office on 02079787040.
If you have any access requirements, you can let us know by contacting filling out the Google Form linked here or contacting Theatre503 via our Writers’ Programme email, writersprogramme@theatre503.com or by calling 02079787040. You can view what we currently are able to offer on our Accessibility page.
Somebody Jones
Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles native playwright/dramaturg, currently living, working, and dreaming in London. Jones’s work celebrates and champions Black culture in all of its charms and complexities. The playwright/dramaturg primarily works within the genres of horror, magical realism, verbatim, and recently, Black fantasy.
Jones’s first professional production, HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM toured the UK in Summer 2024, going from Edinburgh to Brixton, and then Bristol. Formerly, Somebody Jones was a Paines Plough's Playwright Fellow (2023/2024), a part of Soho Theatre's Writers' Lab (2022), and won Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award that same year.
The name Somebody Jones means the more you run from your past, the more you'll run into it.
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