Introduction
Alongside the ATC Youth Company and Youth Associates programmes, the Emerging Writers Table offers playwrights the support and opportunity to create a full-length work over the span of 10 months.
This programme offers six emerging playwrights a guided process across eight curated writing sessions from February to November 2024. Each participant will create a full-length play for performers aged 16-25. This group provides an opportunity to reflect, learn, hear feedback from peers and gain deeper understanding of the playwriting craft and creative process.
Going beyond the basics of ‘writing a play’, these sessions will push participants to question, collaborate, and gain a deeper understanding of the playwriting landscape locally, nationally and internationally. We’ll touch on the basics and delve into what makes a great play tick. What’s worked for writers of the past? What’s working for writers today, now, in this moment of our own theatrical culture? And what works for you? This group is a space to figure that out (or at least get a damn sight closer).
The key focus of this program is to identify and support playwrights who have the potential and ambition to make work at scale, to be programmed as part of ATC’s Youth Company programme in 2025.
If this sounds like something you’d be into, read on for how to apply, and for some basic answers to questions you might be wondering about.
FAQs
Do I need to be under 25 to apply?
- Nope! You can be an emerging writer at 15, 25 or 55!
Do I have to write for under 25s?
- No. You do not have to write a children’s play. But you do have to write a full-length play for performers aged 16-25.
- The work will be performed by the ATC Youth Company, and you should keep this in mind. Youth Company actors are more than capable of playing mature roles and working with big themes. They’re a talented bunch of young creatives who’ve auditioned to join the company. They can hold demanding work with skill, responsibility and rigour.
Workshop dates
1pm-5pm Sat 10 Feb
1pm-5pm Sat 9 Mar
1pm-5pm Sat 20 Apr
1pm-5pm Sat 22 Jun
1pm-5pm Sat 3 Aug
1pm-5pm Sat 14 Sep
1pm-5pm Sat 12 Oct
1pm-5pm Sat 23 Nov
Deadline and application process
Applications due by 5pm, 1 February 2024
Please visit this webpage to read full details and fill out the application form
Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau