Hosted by Emily Sheehan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 49 episodes
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The Playwright’s Process Podcast is a monthly podcast that takes you behind the scenes of script development, storytelling, and the creative process. Each episode dives deep into an aspect of playwriting craft and offers practical advice, thoughtful insights and helpful anecdotes to writing and life as a writer.
Emily Sheehan hosts Playwright's Process Podcast, a arts show with 49 episodes published.
In this special New Year episode I invite you to reflect on your writing year and share a practical way to kick off January: Choosing an Artist Word of the Year. I also reflect on my artistic values and share a personal
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Jenni Medway, Head of New Work at Melbourne Theatre Company. With over a decade of experience in dramaturgy within theatre companies, Jenni shares her approach to developing plays, the r
How does a new Australian play end up on the main stage? One way is by being commissioned by a theatre company. In today's episode, Dom Mercer, Head of New Work at Belvoir, talks us through this process. We discuss how n
Today I answer your writing questions in an ‘ask me anything’ episode. I cover loads of topics related to playwriting, theatre and dramaturgy. Here’s what you asked: - How do play development workshops work, and how do y
AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode is next up! Send me any questions you want answered to emily@emilysheehan.info, or via DM on Instagram @emilysheehan__. We all have ideas for plays (and movies and novels) that never make it
Today I’m riffing on Taylor Swift and how as playwrights we can find ways to write in a way that feels incredibly truthful, to the point that it feels confessional. In what ways can we better embrace the cringey, diarist
Should we have multiple scripts on the go? Today I delve into the benefits and challenges of writing more than one idea at the same time. As well as some strategies for focus and momentum when bouncing between stories. I
Having our work reviewed publicly is a strange and unavoidable part of writing. It's something we all have to deal with when we put new work out into the world. In today's episode I talk about reviews, theatre criticism
Today I'm joined by Artistic Director of the Old Fitz Theatre, Lucy Clements, to talk about the rehearsal room for my play Frame Narrative. We speak about: - Finding the right artistic team to build out the world of the
I've been writing an adaptation! (Frame Narrative and it’s on March 8-30, 2024 at The Old Fitz in Sydney.) Working with source material has changed some parts of my writing process. So I thought it could be useful to sha
Sometimes in order to make a piece of writing stronger you have to remove something. Whether that's a conversation between two characters, a whole scene, a whole narrative thread or maybe even a whole character. In today
What’s your play about? What questions is it trying to answer? What provocations does it make? After a period of intense focus on the big ideas of the play, it can be helpful to switch focus and 'stay with the story'. In
A seductive psychological defence is that we will one day feel ready. Ready to start a draft. Ready to tackle these rewrites. Ready to send the script to a friend to read. But feelings of readiness don’t always arrive… T
It’s time to reacquaint ourselves with rest. Rest and recovery are as much a part of the creative process as phases of enormous artistic output. And we can validate our ambition to create our best work and chase our drea
As part of the publicity for Monument at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, I’ve done a number of radio interviews. This episode is a compilation of three of my favourite radio conversations. So much about theatre and live perf
Today I'm joined by Artistic Director of Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, Ella Caldwell, to talk about the rehearsal room for my play Monument. We speak about: - Finding the right artistic team to build out the world of the p
Monument by Emily Sheehan Directed by Ella Caldwell Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre 9 August - 3 September, 2023 Book now: www.redstitch.net/monument-2023 Next Episode If you have questions about the rehearsal room or working
I’ve been intrigued by the concept of ‘slow looking’ from my visits to galleries in my travels. Slow looking is an approach to visiting a gallery that encourages spending more time with a few selected artworks, rather th
In today’s episode I share one of my favourite pieces of writing about playwriting. José Rivera’s ‘36 Assumptions About Writing Plays’, originally published in the American Theatre Magazine. It’s a beautiful list of prov
Today I talk about staying consistent in our writing practice even when life gets busy. I've been feeling motivated and inspired, but despite my best intentions, life has been intruding on my writing time. This has made
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