Write Here, Right Now #11: Writing & Performing Your Own Work

Write Here, Right Now #11- Writing & Performing Your Own Work- Online Special with Guest facilitator Emma-Louise Howell

Join us for a special online edition of monthly writers meet up Write Here Write Now focussing on mastering the one woman show! Presented in collaboration with I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life the workshop will use theatre, plays and specifically the one woman show as a case study, but many of the exercises and skills will be transferable for other formats, so we encourage authors, poets and whoever else feels they may find it useful to attend too!

Writing One Person Shows: Integration & Innovation with Emma-Louise Howell

Fresh off a 5 star critically acclaimed run of her one-person show I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life at Edinburgh Fringe, Writer and Performer Emma-Louise Howell shares insights into her creative process.

Described as 'a one woman show unlike any other' (Broadway World) and nominated for The Stage Innovation Award, Change Your Life has been lauded for its bold theatricality, dark humour and innovative integration of digital language and technology into the script. This interactive and practical workshop will explore how to begin writing one-person shows, how technology can be used as secondary characters and how to balance the Writer/Performer dynamic.

Watch the trailer for the show and find out more about I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life here and follow them on Instagram and X.

More about Write Here Write Now:

Monthly writers’ workshop, meet up and sharing.

Write Here Right Now, (usually!) brought to you by Girl Gang Manchester and poet, theatre-maker and journalist, Gemma Lees, is a safe and supportive space to explore different forms of writing, share works in progress, receive constructive feedback, find out about writing opportunities in the North West and make new friends and contacts amongst other writers.

For all ages, abilities and for any stage in your writing practice.

More about your facilitator:

Emma-LOUISE HOWELL (SHE/HER) - writer & performer: Emma is an award-winning writer from East Anglia. Her first play PATTERNS won the Michael Ross Award for RADA’s Best New Play and her work has since gone on to be shortlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Prize, Women in Theatre Lab, ITV Original Voices, BBC Writersroom and The Stage Innovation Award. She’s written for stages such as the Pleasance, Leicester Curve, Mercury Theatre, Theatre503, BBC Introducing and Soho Theatre and is developing new work for stage and screen with the support of Attic Theatre Company, New Perspectives and Just Fine Productions.

Prices:

This workshop is semi subsidised by Arts Council Funding, so both Pay As You Feel (at the bottom) and free tickets are available for those who would like to. All workshop funds go back into the project budget and covering Girl Gang's core costs as an unfunded organisation.

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- Unwaged: £6.00

- Standard: £8.00

- Solidarity: £10.00

- PAYF- Enter your own amount (starting at 0

Refund policy: Paying for a ticket funds freelance artists, creatives and facilitators and helps support Girl Gang Manchester in continuing to run events. All tickets are non refundable and non transferable.
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Accessibility information:

• This event will be on Zoom

• Closed captions will be available

• The facilitator will be using a digital presentation

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