Tamasha Playwrights, founded by Artistic Director Fin Kennedy in 2014, is Tamasha’s flagship programme, a writer-led collective of emerging playwrights from global majority backgrounds. The programme has gone from strength to strength, with a strong track record of launching careers.

With Fin stepping down as our AD, this year will be a little different as the group will be under the guidance of two incredible forces of nature: Iman Qureshi (THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR) and Satinder Chohan (MADE IN INDIA).

The aims of Tamasha Playwrights are:

• to offer long-term career development in a supportive environment to emerging playwrights from culturally diverse backgrounds.
• to develop, guide and shape playwrights in the art of theatre writing by offering craft-based sessions.
• to further train playwrights on self-producing, fundraising, facilitation and project management.
• to support and encourage members to be the creative leads on their own project ideas, and to empower them to make a living as artists in between play commissions.
• to guide the writers in writing a new play idea and offering a showcase opportunity of this work to the wider theatre industry.

What you’ll get out of this programme

• Mentoring and support through structured workshops/sessions every fortnight over the period of 10 months (starting this autumn)
• A £500 bursary and allotted writing time
• Dramaturgical support on a new script
• The chance to be part of our 2021/22 Tamasha Playwrights scratch festival

Deadline 

6pm on Tuesday 31 August 2021.

https://tamasha.org.uk/projects/callout-tamasha-playwrights-2021-22/