Description
Writing Your First Play
With Titilola Dawudu
When: 5 week course
Tuesdays
8th March | 15th March | 22nd March | 29th March | 5th April
Time: 6 - 8pm
Where: Online
We welcome Titilola back after a hugely successful run of this course last term. Take a look at what some of the previous participants said about her below.
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Oh my goodness - Titi is a sensational facilitator - really genuine, honest and caring about our work.
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Titi was so generous and gave us ownership over our ideas and then further helped this confidence boost by offering time outside of the workshop.
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I’ve not had an experience like this before. We were all given space to be unapologetically ourselves.
About Titilola:
Titilola Dawudu is a storyteller and producer.
After completing an MA in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins and receiving a distinction in 2016, Titilola became an associate with Tamasha theatre and wrote an audio installation as part of playwright, Ishy Din’s Taxi Tales. She co-created and edited Hear Me Now Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour with Tamasha, published by Oberon Books. A second edition is currently in development. In February 2020, Titilola curated and produced a one-week festival, taking 16 monologues from the Hear Me Now book and creating a platform where stories about Black and South Asian women were not Centre around trauma. LoveSexIdentityAmbition at Theatre503 saw an all Black and South Asian cast and crew open up conversations and provocations about the stories that are on the theatre stages for women of colour.
She is an associate Writer for Beyond Face Theatre company having written Where’s Abi? performed at Theatre Royal in Plymouth in 2017 and a new piece called I’m a Stargazer! as part of their ‘Alright Petal?’ body of work performed in September 2019. She wrote Nafisah, a play about child marriage for Theatre Royal Arojah in Abuja, Nigeria. Her monologues have been performed at Soho theatre (Womb) 2016 and for SlaMinutes at the Arcola Theatre (One Rung) in 2018. Titilola won The Student Guide to Playwriting Award for her play Down Hair in 2016 and her monologue Old Me/New Me was performed at the Bush theatre and is featured in the book, The Student Guide to Playwriting. I Can’t Breathe about the death of New Yorker Eric Garner was selected for a staged reading also at the Bush Theatre. She created work with performer Maya Wiliams for nitroBEAT Pit Party inspired by the Barbican’s Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition in 2017. She wrote a play called XYZ for Theatre Peckham as a response piece to Malorie Blackman’s novel and play Noughts and Crosses in July 2018 and in the same year, she wrote At Any One Time, Other Than This, You Would Be My Friend for Ovalhouse’s the First Bites season.
Titilola is also an essayist, with her first collection My Black Heart due for the end of the year.
Find out more about Titilola on her website here: www.titiandherlife.co.uk
Bursaries:
At Wildcard we believe everyone should have the chance to be creative. We want all our courses to be as open and inclusive as possible to anyone that wants to take part. We are aware that the cost of workshops and regular training is a key barrier in our industry for many people.
With this in mind, we are pleased to be able to offer 2 free places on each course.
If you are interested, please fill in this form where you can tell us a bit about yourself and let us know which course you are interested in:
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Bursary places will be offered out no later than 2 weeks before the course begins.
For further enquiries please email [email protected]
