Category: Making Work

  • Georgia Christou on Writing for Theatre

    Georgia Christou on Writing for Theatre

    Georgia Christou talks to Spotlight about writing for theatre, including how she deals with reviews, what her writing process looks like, and more! I didn’t start writing thinking I was going to make a job out of it… Georgia Christou Georgia Christou tells us all about her journey into writing for theatre, including the misconceptions…

  • How to Produce a Theatre Show

    How to Produce a Theatre Show

    Getting started as a producer of your own work with Paines Plough & DryWrite producer Francesca Moody Self-producing is a challenge: it requires spinning a lot of plates! To help you get started, we spoke to Francesca Moody, producer with Paines Plough on this year’s season, who also works regularly with DryWrite, not least on their runaway hit Fleabag,…

  • Edinburgh Fringe: Writing and Performing Your Own Work

    Edinburgh Fringe: Writing and Performing Your Own Work

    Theatre creators and performers joue le genre on their latest play What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors – what you need to know to take your own show to the Fringe Emma Bentley and Camille Favre are the artistic directors of joue le genre, taking their second production to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Spotlight spoke…

  • How to Start Your Own Theatre Company

    How to Start Your Own Theatre Company

    Explore the ins and outs of running a small theatre company with Fledgling Theatre. Fledgling Theatre (who are Christopher Neels, Callum Cameron and Patrick Holt in the UK, and have an Australian arm headed up by Chris Huntley-Turner) have been creating their own work as a company since its founding members left the Royal Central School of Speech…