Playwrights East: Playwriting, Devising & Collaborating with Aisha Zia

Are you a playwright who relishes the chance to build new worlds with others? Are you a performer, or theatre-maker looking to build your credentials as a writer? Aisha Zia (More…Ghost Stories by Candlelight, No Guts, No Heart, No Glory) draws on her wealth of experience working with devised companies, community groups, in multi-authored piece and across different forms and genres of performance to open up the role of playwrights in all kinds of creative processes and settings.

Thursday 3rd July 6.30pm-8.30pm – Online

Who is this workshop for?

Playwrights at all stages and experience levels interested in building positive and dynamic relationships with other creatives in their work.

How will I access the workshops?

The workshop will be held online via Zoom. You will be sent links for the session via email roughly 3 hours before the scheduled start time.

Do I need to bring anything with me?

You may wish to make notes during the session so please have anything with you that you require to assist in this. Captions are available alongside live transcripts.  Some notes, resources, and partial recordings may be made available to participants after the session.

About Aisha

Aisha is an award winning British Pakistani theatre-maker and playwright from Peterborough. She won Highly Commended from Amnesty International at the Edinburgh Fringe for her play Our Glass House, and The Scotsman Fringe First for her play No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, both with Common Wealth. No Guts, a play about young boxing Muslim women from Bradford, was selected for the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre, and Live from TVC with the Battersea Arts Centre screened on BBC4.

Aisha has been commissioned by Hampstead, Fuel, HighTide, Pains Plough, Curve Leicester, Contact Manchester and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She is a former resident artist at Somerset House Studios in London, Theatre 503’s 503Five, associate artist at HighTide and the Foundation Jan Michalski in Switzerland.

As well as conceiving original ideas for theatre, film and TV, Aisha has worked as a Photo Editor for the Financial Times and the Independent having previously worked for the New Statesman and Reuters.