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Pitching is one of the hardest parts of the job as a writer, that’s just a fact. The cold sweat when someone asks “so tell us the idea!” is inevitable for all of us and most of the time our brilliantly constructed, carefully thought through ideas end up coming out in a tangled mess of complete mind blank and slightly manic “no I have thought it through really!” as you just try and get through it.
This workshop will take some of that dread away by exploring the ways in which we can prepare for pitching our ideas. We will look at ten page treatments, one page pitch documents and the dreaded verbal pitch and workshop ways to ensure we all have a tool kit to fall back on as we get ready to take out our ideas in to the world.
Alongside this, some exercises on adapting for television and working out how do you hold on to your voice when adapting classical material as well as the process of adapting your own material for television.
This Masterclass will give you a tool kit to fall back on and trust as you begin to take your writing out in to the world and to be able to walk in to pitches with confidence and clarity.
Date: Thursday 5 February 2026
Time: 7pm – 9:30pm
Running time of workshop: 2.5 hours – delivered online. Maximum class sizes are 16. A portion of spaces have been reserved for Share the Drama places.
If you have any access requirements, you can let us know by filling out our Writer’s Programme Accessibility Form or contacting Theatre503 via our Writers’ Programme email, writersprogramme@theatre503.com or by calling 02079787040.
For further details of Theatre503 Accessibility, please visit the Access page of our website.
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.
Please note, online sale will close at 5pm the day of the Masterclass
Ava Pickett
Ava Pickett is a writer for stage and screen. She has written episodes of Brassic, Ten Pound Poms, The Great, Bad Education and The Buccaneers, How to Get To Heaven From Belfast. Her debut play 1536 won the Susan Smith BlackBurn Prize, won special commendation from the George Devine and won her Stage Debut Award for Best Writer and premiered at The Almeida in May 2025. Her adaptation of Emma at The Rose Kingston premiered in September 2025 and her adaptation of The Manningtree Witches will premiere at The Mercury Colchester in 2026. She is the writer in residence at the National Theatre for 2025/26.
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