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Lance Woodman | Playwright and Drama Worker |
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I have many years of experience of teaching drama and playwriting to students from 12 to 82 years old.
| The work | Details |
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| Birkbeck College, University of London | I gave a Drama Masterclass in June 2006. I am on Birkbeck's panel of lecturers for Creative Writing and now teach on their Certificate course. |
| Mousetrap Theatre Projects ... | ... in conjunction with writernet and The Citizenship Foundation. May-July 2007. An in school project at Park View Academy, Tottenham. A series of playwriting workshops with year 8 and 10 pupils. The work was inspired by Diane Samuels play Kindertransport and citizenship issues. A showcase of selected work from participating schools was presented at The Arts Theatre in July 2007. |
| postSCRIPT | postSCRIPT are a Birmingham-based performance writers' group. I have run a series of full day Saturday workshops for them at Millenium Point in 2006. The mentoring scheme was supported by SCRIPT |
| Midlands Arts Centre (mac) | A Creative Playwriting Course taught with Deborah Catesby. This was a fortnightly course for first time playwrights. The course ran over 2 terms. It first ran in 2002/3 and again in 2003/4. In 2004/5 I taught it solo. |
| artworcs |
In October 2005 I ran a one day Writing for Theatre workshop for artworcs at The Number 8 Community Arts Centre in Pershore - More details here.
In 2005 I ran a series of workshops with Sheila Farrell as part of artworcs' Upside Down and Back to Front project. I ran a Making a Scene one-day playwriting for beginners workshop for the company in 2003. |
| Swan Playwrights | I was a founder member of this performance writers' group. I led several playwriting for them. I directed a showcase for them in December '03. |
| Birmingham City University (formerly the University of Central England) | Autumn 2003: Teaching on the undergraduate Dramaturgy and Adaptation Part 1 module. Since September 2004 I have been a part-time drama lecturer at BCU teaching Writing for Performance, Drama, Theories of Performance and Modern British Drama. |
| The University of Worcester (formerly University College Worcester) | I've taught drama modules on Theatre Reviewing (!) and Contemporary British TV Drama. I have guest lectured on playwriting at undergraduate and masters level (most recently in October 2005). I've also taught several Information Technology modules. |
| University of Birmingham | Guest lecture (2002) on writing for community theatre for the MPhil in Playwriting Studies. In July 2004 Deborah Catesby and I ran a Play in a Week summer course for their continuing education centre. |
| Worcester Swan Theatre | Sessional worker leading writing workshops for young people at schools and colleges in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. 2002/3 Pearson writer-in-residence. |
| New Theatre Works / Hereford Courtyard | 2003 Pearson writer-in-residence. After the residency finished I continued to work with NTW, assisting with their New Playwrights group and directing for their new writing showcases. |
| Script reading | For SCRIPT (formerly Stagecoach!), Worcester Swan Theatre, New Theatre Works, f-l-i-p and Swan Playwrights. |
| Mentoring | Trained as a mentor with A+MTC. In 2003/4 I mentored a playwright as part of her ACEWM Creative Ambitions award. |
| Youth theatre | Sessional worker at Worcester Swan Theatre from 1998-2002. |
| Contact | Top of page | Last updated: 1/Oct/2007 |