PLAYWRITING BOOTCAMP!

Join the fantastic American playwright Jen Silverman for this two hour playwriting bootcamp packed with exercises covering all areas of the craft!

A great way to start thinking about writing for the stage or to tune up your existing skills while you work on a new play.

*PLEASE NOTE: This workshop takes place on Zoom. You will be emailed the link to join 24 hours before the session.

2 Free Bursary places are available for this workshop-please email info@downstagewrite.uk telling us a little about yourself and why a bursary place would help you as a writer.

Jen Silverman is a New York-based writer. Her plays include Witch, Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties…, The Roommate, and The Moors. Her work is published by Concord Theatricals/ Samuel French (US), Oberon Books (UK), and S. Fischer Verlage (Germany), and has been produced in the US, Europe, Australia, and the UK. Jen is the author of The Island Dwellers, a collection of interlinked stories published by Random House and longlisted for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Her debut novel We Play Ourselves was recently published by Random House, featured in the NY Times, and selected by O Magazine as an “LGBTQ Book That Will Change the Literary Landscape.” It will be released by Atlantic Books in the UK this summer. Her essays and stories have appeared in Vogue, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Sun, and LitHub. Jen also writes for TV and film.