RSC writing workshop with artists Hannah Khalil and Chris White

As part of the University’s partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the RSC is offering all postgraduate students in the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies the opportunity to take part in a FREE writing workshop with artists Hannah Khalil and Chris White.

Whether you are an experienced, emerging or never-before playwright, why not spend the day with playwright Hannah and director Chris to explore starting points for dramatic storytelling? Drawing on your imagination, some shared stories, and scenes from Hannah’s plays, we will help you create characters and scenes during the course of the day. Whatever you are studying, and whatever your level of experience, we would love you to come along and give it a go.

The workshop is part of 37 Plays: a new national Playwrighting project led by the RSC and our partner theatres. We are seeking the stories of our times: the comedies, the tragedies and the untold histories. We invite anyone in the UK of any age who would like to write a play to tell the story you would like to tell. The chosen 37 plays will be performed script-in-hand across the UK and online in autumn 2023. Submissions open 1-31 January 2023.

Date: Thursday 3 November (Week 6)

Venue: University of Birmingham Selly Oak Campus, Studio 1, The Old Library SOVAC, 998 Bristol Road, Birmingham B29 6LG (free shuttle from Edgbaston campus or 15 mins walk from Selly Oak train station)

Time: 10am-4pm

For: Open to all PGT and PGR students in EDACS

To register for the workshop, or for further information, please email Sally Delbeke (s.delbeke@bham.ac.uk).
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Hannah Khalil is a playwright and screenwriter of Palestinian-Irish heritage. She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and is currently writer-in-residence at The Globe Theatre, where her plays The Fir Tree and Hakawatis will open later this year. Her plays cover a range of characters, countries and experiences and have been performed throughout the UK and internationally. For the RSC she wrote A Museum in Baghdad, directed by RSC Acting Artistic Director Erica Whyman

Chris White is dramaturg and director with a wide range of experience of working with emerging and established playwrights. He is a Fellow of Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre and an Associate Learning Practitioner for the RSC. He has directed productions of new work in the UK and around the world, including Nothing in a Butterfly for Omnibus Theatre and Trouble and Wonder for the RSC. He has directed several productions of Hannah’s work and they are currently collaborating on two new plays