As part of the New Playwrights Programme at the Lyric will be hosting a number of public workshops and masterclasses led by key writers and directors, to help aspiring new playwrights to develop their skills.

This workshop is led by James Grieve.

James is Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough, the UK’s national theatre of new plays. For Paines Plough he has directed new plays by writers including Mike Bartlett, James Graham, Kate Tempest, Elinor Cook, Tom Wells, Brad Birch, Penelope Skinner and Nick Payne. His freelance work includes a new production of LES MISERABLES for Wermland Opera in Sweden, Brian Friel’s TRANSLATIONS which won Best Production at the UK Theatre Awards 2014 and the new musical THE ASSASSINATION OF KATIE HOPKINS which won Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards 2018.

https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/event/new-playwrights-programme-masterclass-series-james-grieve/