Creative Writing in English – (Certificate)

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The course is designed to enable new and improving writers to find and develop their voice for both the modern stage and theatrical approaches to dramatic performance material. The course treats the total writer (creative, intellectual, inquisitive, emotional and spiritual) as the source of the art, and expects participants to have an interest in other art forms to enable them to draw on a wide range of artistic influences. The course is fun, challenging and participants will work toward having their projects given a rehearsed public reading.

Neil Andrew Taylor is a highly successful author and playwright based in London. He travels extensively to lecture in other European cities and further afield. His adaptations of British screen classics and novels have been widely performed nationally in the UK including runs on Shaftesbury Avenue, in London’s famous West-End theatre-land. His world premiere works include stage versions of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter, Room At The Top, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lady Vanishes, and many others, for leading impressarios. A post-graduate in both literature and film, for several years he directed a successful touring regional theatre company in the UK, and has extensive performance/writing experience in a variety of live and recorded media including works for film, radio and performance prose-poetry .

Course is supported by British Council.