6 week Playwriting workshop
with Playwright in Residence Janet Moran
Fundamentals of Playwriting
An in-person, group workshop that includes reading and analysis of contemporary plays, freewriting and generative exercises, group discussion and the creation of short, 10 minute plays for a public reading in 2025.
Tuesday Evenings, 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm for 6 weeks, starting November 19th 2024 and running until Jan 21st 2025 (with a winter break December 11th – Jan 6th)
Venue: In person at Dun Laoghaire Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Suitable for: All levels of interest and curiosity. Writers at every stage and level are welcome, including beginners. Min age is 18. There no upper age limit (all are welcome).
Application:
Deadline to submit application is: 5pm, Tuesday October 22nd
By Email: please include (i) brief cover email, (ii) a short background or bio, (iii) writing experience, if any and (iv) a writing sample up to 500 words (please note, this will not be shared or form part of workshop), and (v) please confirm you are over 18 years of age.
All one word document (only). Please name the word document as your own name before attaching to email.
Email to: playwrightdlr@gmail.com
Places: There are 8 places available for this course of workshops.
All applicants will be contacted by email on/before Nov. 1st
Cost: For successful applicants, the fee for your place on this course of workshops will be covered by The Dun Laoghaire Arts Office Playwright in Residence Programme.
Welcome Playwrights in Residence 2024-25
We are thrilled to welcome playwright and actor Janet Moran as the dlr Established Playwright in Residence for 2024-25.
We are equally delighted to welcome Ciara Elizabeth Smyth as the dlr Emerging Playwright in Residence for 2024-25.
The playwrights will be based in dlr LexIcon and will spend time on both their own work and a public engagement programme.
Janet Moran is an actor and playwright based in Dublin.
She has performed at the Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Dublin, the National Theatre UK as well as with many other Irish and Uk companies and on stages in the US, France, Mexico and New Zealand. In 2023, she received the Irish Times Best Actress Award .
She co-wrote and performed in the hit play Swing which toured both Nationally and internationally between 2013 and 2016. Swing was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2015. She wrote and directed A Holy Show which played a sell-out run at the Peacock Theatre as part of Dublin Fringe before transferring to Edinburgh Fringe, CCI Paris and completing a sold out National tour in 2019. A Holy Show was subsequently adapted for RTE Drama on One. In 2020, she co-wrote and directed Pure Mental, (National Tour & First Fortnight festival) and Looking for América which played at the Mermaid Arts Centre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and Assembly at Edinburgh Fringe. Looking for Amèrica was chosen by Screen Ireland to be developed into a screenplay as part of their Spotlight programme. In 2023 her play Quake premiered as part of Dublin Theatre Festival at the Samuel Beckett Theatre and was named one of the top 50 shows in the UK and Ireland by The Stage UK. Quake was also nominated for a Writers Guild of Ireland (Zebbie)award in 2024. Her new play Afterwards premieres in September 2024 at the Peacock Theatre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival and will be published by Methuen.
Ciara Elizabeth Smyth is an award-winning playwright from Dun Laoghaire. Her plays have been presented by the Abbey Theatre, the Project Arts Centre, Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, the Lyric Theatre Belfast, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and the Royal Court London.
She is currently under commission with several television production companies and theatre companies in the UK, Ireland and New York.
Her most recent play LIE LOW won Best Theatre Script award at the Writers Guild of Ireland Awards 2023 and was also awarded First Finalist BBC Writers Room Popcorn Award 2023 as well as being nominated for Best New Play and Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2022 and the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe 2022. LIE LOW was recently translated into Italian and is being adapted as an opera by award-winning composer Alex Dowling.
During her career as a playwright Ciara has been a recipient of artistic residencies with Rough Magic Theatre Company, the National Gallery of Ireland, the axis Ballymun, the MAC Belfast, the New Theatre Dublin, Summerhall Edinburgh, and the Mill Theatre Dundrum as part of the MAVENS programme.
Her debut short film, SLAY + PREPARE, which was awarded funding through the Sharp Shorts programme 2023, will premiere in the UK in 2024. She is also on commission to develop a debut feature film. Ciara is represented by Curtis Brown.
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