Hansjörg Schmidt is the Programme Director for Lighting Design at Rose Bruford College. Before joining the College in 2008, he worked as a freelance lighting designer. He graduated with a BA (First Class Honours) in Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an MSc Built Environment: Light and Lighting from the Bartlett School, […]
Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, www.finkennedy.co.uk. A slightly longer version of this article was given as a paper at the Between Fact and Fiction Conference, Birmingham University, 5th September 2007. I am a research-led writer. Someone recently described me as a “method writer” and before that someone else called me an “investigative playwright”. But […]
Jacqueline Bolton is currently undertaking an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship, studying Dramaturgy and Literary Management at the University of Leeds in conjunction with West Yorkshire Playhouse. A slightly longer version of this article was given as a paper at the Performing Literatures conference, University of Leeds, 29 June-1 July 2007. In the UK, the […]
It is well known that British new writing for the theatre has been enjoying an unprecedented boom in recent years. There is now more new writing than at any time before: everywhere you look, both in and outside London, there are new writing festivals, new writing bursaries, new work for kids and new plays on […]