Curious about telling stories about climate and nature on stage? Join our upcoming workshop designed to support writers finding their own climate drama to share.

This session is an opportunity to think creatively and critically about how theatre can respond to the defining challenge of our time. Together we’ll explore how climate stories can become compelling drama: from finding the human stakes inside global issues to building characters, conflict, and theatrical worlds.

This workshop is led by Nina Segal and will include a practical exploration of how to write your climate play, a wider discussion about the kinds of climate stories we need now, and a conversation with a relevant environmental expert telling their own story of change.

Whether you’re already developing an idea or just beginning to think about writing about the climate, this workshop is a space to test ideas, ask questions, and connect with other writers engaging with the climate crisis. 

This workshop is intended for those interested in finding out more about, and potentially submitting a play for, the Climate Playwriting Prize. We expect writers who attend to be eligible to apply for the prize (prize criteria are here). This means you will have had some previous professional experience of script writing, such as participating in a talent development scheme, staging an R&D sharing or having a script commissioned. No prior knowledge of climate science is required – just curiosity, imagination, and a desire to tell powerful stories.

The Climate Playwriting Prize is a partnership between Shakespeare’s Globe, Climate Spring and Fern Culture, in association with Chichester Festival Theatre, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Mercury Theatre Colchester, New Earth, Pentabus and tiata fahodzi. 

Additional information

This event is free to attend, and booking is open to the public, but the workshop is intended for playwrights who qualify to enter the prize (i.e., have had some kind of professional experience previously) and spaces are limited.

The workshop is scheduled to last 3 hours, from 3.30-6.30pm in the Creative Engagement Space on Sat 30 May.

If you don’t know where the Creative Engagement Space is, please just ask a member of our Box Office or Front of House team, and they will be able to point you in the right direction.

Some light refreshments will be provided, but feel free to also bring your own and any other tools you may need (i.e., writing implements to take notes).

Accessibility

On booking, you will be asked to detail any access needs that you may have so that we can support you.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to us via our Box Office.

Facilitator

Nina Segal is a playwright. Her productions include: Cow | Deer (Royal Court), We Are The Lucky Ones (Dutch National Opera, Ruhrtriennale), Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre), The Odyssey (It’s A Really Really Really Long Journey) (The Unicorn), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith); War and Culture (New Diorama); O, Island! (RSC); AI (Young Vic); Dismantle This Room (Bush Theatre, Royal Court); Big Guns (Yard Theatre); and In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Gate Theatre).  Nina is an Associate Playwright at the Royal Court.