Developing A Creative Partnership

Free workshop

Led by Amy Crighton and Katrina Bennett, Developing A Creative Partnership, is a new workshop hosted at London Performance Studios.

Writer/Director duo Katrina Bennett and Amy Crighton have been working collaboratively for over 2 years as a creative pair and now run the company Votive Theatre together. In this workshop they will take you through the first steps of building a sustainable collaborative relationship that could also one day lead to a company, show or joint career. Covering everything from the first coffee meeting to giving respectful criticism and developing work together. 

This workshop is delivered from the point of view of a director and writer so will cover topics that might be specific to those creative groups.

Dates and times

Tuesday 10 May. 7-8.30 pm

Tickets

Free. Please register your place by registering here

Proof of Vaccination or negative test within 24 hrs requested so that we can work in a mask-optional setting. 

Location

Studio 5, London Performance Studios

For more info on how to get to London Performance Studios, click here

Amy Crighton is a Midlands based freelance theatre director and dramaturg with a particular focus on developing new work in conjunction with writers, and an interest in working with new technologies. Amy spent 3 years at the Nottingham New Theatre whilst at the University of Nottingham where she worked as a director, actor, producer and stage manager, with one of her productions being selected to be part of the National Student Drama Festival 2019. Since then, she has worked with companies such as Sheffield Theatres, the Royal Exchange and the Young Vic, and is currently the Literary Assistant at the Bush Theatre.

Katrina Bennett is a scriptwriter from Warwickshire. Initially pursuing a journalism career, she was co-editor of the award-winning publication RAZZ Magazine and was personally nominated for national student journalism awards. Katrina is now an MA student at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, having received a full scholarship to study Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media. She has been recognised for her writing as a winner of Watersprite Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition in 2021, and placed in the second round of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.