Practical Writing Exercises to inspire your drama students – in association with National Drama

Speakers

• Keith Jarrett Writer, performer and educator
  

  Keith Jarrett

  Writer, performer and educator

  UK poetry slam champion and Rio International Poetry Slam Winner, Keith’s work has included bilingual performances in Bilbao and Madrid, in addition to UK-wide commissions, from arts institutions to St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Houses of Parliament. His play, Safest Spot in Town, was aired on BBC Four.

• Leo Skilbeck Writer, director, theatre maker and the Artistic Director of Milk Presents theatre company.
  

  Leo Skilbeck

  Writer, director, theatre maker and the Artistic Director of Milk Presents theatre company.

  Leo Skilbeck is a writer, director, theatre maker and the Artistic Director of Milk Presents theatre company. Leo is a Theatre Centre Fellow, and their work centres queer and trans experiences in unexpected ways, often fusing theatre and cabaret. Leo’s recent work includes  Bullish – a transmasculine odyssey (Milk Presents UK tour 2018); Joan - a drag king play (Milk Presents/Derby Theatre, winner of Fringe First, Off-West End Award); Big Ben (a monologue for the Young Vic’s My England film series).

• Rob Watt Critically acclaimed director, dramaturg, facilitator and Artistic Director of Theatre Centre
  

  Rob Watt

  Critically acclaimed director, dramaturg, facilitator and Artistic Director of Theatre Centre

  Rob collaborates with writers, communities, poets, designers to try to make sense of the fractured world we live in. He is dedicated to working with young people to help them tell stories, understand how to access theatre and to make resonant and risk taking work. As well as being Artistic Director of Theatre Centre he also currently works as an Associate at Headlong Theatre and regularly teaches at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He previously headed up the young people’s team at the National Theatre, was a Lead Artist at Lyric Hammersmith, an Artist Mentor at the Barbican and was Associate Director at Immediate Theatre.