September:
Sarah Hehir
Writing for TV Soap
Sarah is a poet and writer for stage, screen and radio. In 2013 she won the inaugural BBC Writer’s Prize for her drama Bang Up, and in 2016, her TV drama The Seafort was selected for the BBC TV Drama Writers’ Programme.
Echoes Through the Dust appears in Short Plays with Great Roles for Women anthology. In 2016, Zero Down was transferred from Theatre 503 to The Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Sarah currently writes for The Archers and BBC Doctors.
October:
Tom Crowley
Writing for TV Soap
Tom Crowley is a writer, actor and comedian best known as a co-creator and series writer of the British Podcast Award-winning sitcom Wooden Overcoats and as the playwright behind the stage premiere of the Rocky Horror sequel, Shock Treatment.
He has also written for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Wales, Bafflegab Productions and Six to Start. His stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations was published by Methuen in 2017.
Tom writes, performs and produces his own one-man sketch comedy podcast, Crowley Time with me, Tom Crowley, available on all good podcast apps and at crowleytime.com.
November:
Paul Doust
Writing for Stage
Paul trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. It was through acting that he began to write drama; this makes his writing rooted in what actors can actually “do”.
He is a produced and published playwright and although he has, at times, written for TV (EastEnders, Holby, etc) he writes mainly, and very happily, for the stage.
He also directs, leads various theatre workshops/training events, and runs his own actor-led theatre company – “December Hall Actors’ Theatre”.