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Comment by meredydd barker on January 21, 2013 at 23:52

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/jan/21/theatre-say-about-internet

Comment by carmen medway-stephens on January 8, 2013 at 7:40

Have you got a story to tell? Have you always wanted to know how to get it on paper? Don't know where to start? Not sure what story to develop? Keep starting ideas and never finish? Don't know how to get to the end page? Want to have the confidence to get your work out there? Fed up with attending expensive courses that are not local?

Would you like to work in a supportive environment with group sharing and actor led readings with feedback? 

2013 - A new ten week screen writing course with AGORED qualification will start at Bridgend College end of Jan Tuesday Evenings.

Please email cmstephens@bridgend.ac.uk for more info or contact me on here.

Comment by carmen medway-stephens on January 5, 2013 at 3:44

Hi  Stephen/Writers attending the writers forum @Sherman Cymru, we hope to hold the next one last Monday of the month, will post confirmation in a couple of days, many thanks

Comment by Stephen Rhys Gage on January 3, 2013 at 9:37

Hi Carmen, do you have a date for the next Forum at Sherman yet?

Ta

S

Comment by carmen medway-stephens on December 19, 2012 at 0:50

Nadolig Llawen, Merry Christmas to all the writers, Here's to a creative and productive 2013

New Writers 10 week course begins end of Jan @ Bridgend 'Writing Screenplays'

Its about returning back to film, writing that Oscar winning story that's bursting to get out of you and getting your script polished to send off....to dare I say it Hollywood or maybe closer to home the good old BBC.

Forum @ Sherman will continue in January, get your scripts at the ready

Get in touch with me on here or cmstephens@bridgend.ac.uk  

Comment by Tim Price on December 6, 2012 at 0:14

Hi Matt, no we didn't apply for support. We'd had project funding for After The End in July, so we are exempt from applying for another project grant for a year. We're still trying to find innovative ways of funding work so we are not reliant on ACW project funding. Without Clwyd Theatr Cymru co-producing we could never have financed the show. Know any Cardiff based investment bankers? Me neither. 

Comment by National Theatre Wales on December 5, 2012 at 7:00

Hi all.  One of the pieces of feedback we've had over the last few months is that it would be great to have more opportunities for 'mid-career' artists to input into NTW outside of the needs of a particular show or commission.  So for 2013 we've created the 'Artist of the Year' position. It's open to all kinds of creatives - including writers of all types - playwrights, novelists, poets... You can get all the info here  There's no strict definition of 'mid-career' but the idea was to balance the opportunities that are out there for emerging practitioners with something for those who have some experience, but still long for new opportunities.  Over to you!

Comment by Matt Ball on December 5, 2012 at 3:42

Tim, out of curiosity, did DP apply for ACW funding for Last Christmas?

Comment by Tim Price on December 3, 2012 at 23:02

Hello everyone

I want to draw your attention to two things - firstly:

Dirty Protest's next play 'Last Christmas' Matt Bulgo. It's on at the Sherman Cymru December 12-th 15th. This play is hugely significant for us as it's our first full piece of new writing. We're co-producing the show with Clwyd Theatr Cymru without any funding. 

http://www.shermancymru.co.uk/performance/christmas/last-christmas/

We're only able to do this, because we run DP voluntarily and no-one has taken a wage in the past 5 years. All of our money goes back into productions to support new writing in Wales. Our goal has always been to produce a new play by a new Welsh writer and finally we've achieved it. 

I would love Dirty Protest to not exist. I'd love there to be so many opportunities for writers to get their first play provided by our RFO theatres, but it's not the case. So companies like DP have to step in, to help professionalise writers, and take writers seriously.

So yes of course come along and see the show as a punter (if family Christmases are something that fills with you dread, and you get through it with a combination of alcohol and repression, then this is the show for you) but this is also a call to arms of sorts. If you think what we're doing is right, and if you think the Sherman/NTW/Clwyd should be doing more of it, then come along and support us. A sell out show for us, is wonderful and we might actually pay someone, but more importantly it gives us leverage when we go to the Arts Council and say 'See. There is an audience. They are not being catered for by the theatres you are funding'.

So buy a ticket and join the new writing revolution. It could be you next.

Secondly - read this article about new writing in London compared to New York. V interesting:

http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/issue/featuredstory.cfm?indexID=... 

Comment by carmen medway-stephens on December 3, 2012 at 7:53

Nick John Trainee (3-year contract)
(Welsh National Opera is)
http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/adverts/adverts_details.asp?ad_ID=1172
good job for a writer who may have good research skills, interest in Opera - deadline today

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