This session will explore how space and time can be utilised in your play and the importance of developing how these two significant aspects of playwriting craft work in conjunction with each other.

About Winsome Pinnock

Winsome Pinnock is an award-winning playwright. Her work in theatre includes The Authenticator (National Theatre) an adaptation of Pig Heart Boy on a UK tour (London Theatre Award for Best Play for Young People); Can You Keep a Secret at the National Theatre; Rockets and Blue Lights at Manchester Royal Exchange and the National Theatre; One Under on tour and at the Kiln; Leave Taking at Liverpool Playhouse, the National Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, the Lyric Hammersmith and the Bush; The Principles of Cartography at the Bush; Glutathione at the Young Vic; Tituba at Hampstead; Cleaning Up for Clean Break; Taken at Soho Theatre; IDP and Water at the Kiln; The Stowaway at Theatre Royal Plymouth; Mules (also Young Vic and in the US), Talking in Tongues, A Hero’s Welcome and A Rock in Water at the Royal Court; The Wind of Change for Half Moon Theatre; and Picture Palace for Sphinx Theatre. TV includes Bitter Harvest, Chalkface and South of the Border. Radio includes Faith, Hope and Glory, Rockets and Blue Lights (On Comm Award for Best Audio Production), Leave Taking, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, LetThem Call It Jazz and Clean Trade. Awards include the George Devine Award, Unity Theatre Trust Award, Alfred Fagon Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation, Pearson Plays on Stage Award, Ruth and Golden Harris Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize. Winsome Pinnock was UNESCO Fellow at University of East Anglia and Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.  She is currently Writer in Residence at Bristol Old Vic and Professor of Professional Practice at the Central School of Speech and Drama.  Winsome is currently writing a biopic of Dinah Washington for Rolling Fork Productions and holds commissions for Headlong Theatre Company and the Royal Court Theatre.

About Theatre503

Theatre503 is the national theatre for debut playwrights and the artists who bring their words to life. We play a vital role in the theatre ecology by helping diverse new voices reach the first rung on the artistic career ladder. We are experts in developing, launching and transforming the next generation of leading writers across stage and screen.

We have nurtured modern classics such as The Mountaintop by Katori Hall and Rotterdam by Jon Brittain – both Olivier Award winners – and classics in the making like Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert, winner of the 2020 James Tait Black Prize, and Ross Willis’ Wolfie, winner of the 2020 Writers Guild Award for Best New Play. Theatre503 alumni have written for Succession, Doctor Who, Killing Eve, Normal People and One Day.