The Screenworks Writing for TV Intensive is a 2-day professional development workshop designed to support writers in developing their TV scriptwriting skills in a writer’s room environment.
Guided by acclaimed scriptwriter, script editor and script producer Alexa Wyatt, the applicants will be taken through the key elements fundamental to writing successful TV drama. Participants will then work through each of their scripts within a mini-writers room environment and in front of the group. In this creative space, collaboration, compromise and an ability to work to a deadline will be key as will the need to be respectful of others, and flexible and open to new ideas and alternative points of view.
This workshop is most relevant to early-career writers who have some experience in writing drama and an ambition to write drama for TV. Applicants will bring a TV drama series concept into the room and be prepared to share it with the group. This process will help participants to understand
