Enjoyed HER Productions’s Vignettes at Hope Mill Theatre last night. Great to watch some brilliant new plays and celebrate local talent (including some of our ace PlayMakers!) Running until next Wednesday.

Some thoughts #fundthearts

Love and solidarity Middle Child. We hear you. The existential crisis is real and it’s never been tougher. Here’s to Hull turning out! ❤️ ✊

We are an alliance of 281 disabled and allied arts professionals and 35 organisations.

This is our statement regarding our meeting with Shakespeare’s Globe on Monday 18th March 2024.

🎉Great to see a number of PlayMakers on this list of Mentored Writers with the brilliant Paines Plough...

‘We still have faith in Manchester as a radical place.’

Read our statement on the reinstated ‘Voices of Resilience’ event HOME here 👇

commapress.co.uk/blog/statement…

A statement on Voices of Resilience tinyurl.com/mr2fcpbd

My second 101 Exercises for Playwrights newsletter is ready to go. You can read and subscribe using the link. 'Exercise 1'. buttondown.email/MarkRavenhill/…

Writers and dramaturgs - I'm looking for suggestions of exercises to help playwrights explore and play with genre (sci-fi, rom-com, western, horror, thriller - anything!) in their work. Have been making some up... But any bright ideas?💡

🖊️ PlayMakers! The Alfred Fagon Award is open!

✍️ PlayMakers! Check this out from the brilliant Mark Ravenhill…

Friends ! I’ve set up my two times a week FREE newsletter of 101 Playwriting Exercises (more words than my 101 Playwriting Tweets). Once I’ve got a few hundred subscribers I’ll start sending ‘em. Please share so I can start sending soon. Many thanks. buttondown.email/MarkRavenhill

In the bleak of the midst of new writing ‘being too risky’ and literary departments vanishing , this is a GIANT breath of relief. ‘Where will the new plays be in 20 years?’ This is exactly what’s needed Nancy Medina ❤️❤️❤️

Lovely lovely lovely day Box of Tricks. So productive and useful and brilliant to hear writers talking about their plays. Off now to London to get Easter-ed 🐣

Day 2 Box of Tricks. Back to drink more of their tea and raid more of their library.

Last time I’ll mention it but the deadline for this PAID scheme for Northern writers is at 11:59pm tonight. You still have time. Couple of questions and a ten page extract to apply. Go, go, go!

#happyworldtheatreday . Spending tomorrow in Manchester on one of my current projects, writing a play supported by the lovely Box of Tricks. With rejections and funding cuts, this is not an easy industry. But we keep on keeping on. Here’s to another year. 🎭

Incredibly honoured to be a member of Launchpad with the unparalleled CRIPtic Arts ⚡️

Unfortunately, it’s been difficult to properly celebrate, because one of the key elements of this opportunity is to platform my work in a space that has censored Palestinian voices
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👏Congratulations Elinor Randle! Brilliant appointment by Unity Theatre 🧡!