Women's Writing for Performance

A three-year, AHRB funded programme of practice-as- research events with a focus on ways in which women practitioners ‘write’ for contemporary performance

		Women's Writing for Performance Project Links Page Please click on links below to go to relevant webpages
	Artists' Webpages	Gilly Adams Geddy Aniksdal – The Grenland Friteater, Norway Bobby Baker' Daily Life Curious - Placelessness.com Sarah Daniels' Bibliography Jenny Éclair Jenny É clair - BBC Anna Furse Kazuko Hohki Jackie Kay Rebecca Prichard Split Britches SuAndi Vayu Naidu
	Useful Agencies and Organisations	Mslexia – magazine for women who write Apples and Snakes – performance poetry network Arts Council England The Magdalena Project - international network of women in contemporary theatre The Open Page Publications: annual journal of The Magdalena Project Black Arts Alliance – network of Black Artists based in Manchester New Writing North – development Agency for new writing in the North of England Queer up North - supports, produces and presents lesbian and gay arts, based in Manchester Artvibes - online information resource on Black and ethnic minority performing arts, literature, visual arts and film. Commonword – virtual community of North West writers Dead Good Poetry Society, Liverpool – promotes poetry performance Federation of worker writers and community publishers - umbrella body for writers' groups, small publishers and performance agencies. SCRIPT - development agency for all dramatic writers in the West Midlands. It provides training programmes, mentoring and development schemes and writer events throughout the region. Writernet – online resource for dramatic writers
	Writing for broadcast Media	BBC Writers Room
	Theatres working with new writing	The Royal Court Theatre, London National Theatre: Studio and New Writing Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester KALI - London based theatre company aiming to support and develop new theatre writing by Asian women. Paines Plough – new writing theatre company Talawa Theatre - a Black producing theatre company - runs a scheme to develop Black women writers. Yorkshire Women Theatre - performing company in Leeds. Red Room - new writing company that cultivates and produces radical new theatre. Liverpool's New Writing Theatre – script reading service Menagerie Theatre, Cambridge – new writers programme Greenroom Arts, Manchester - centre for contemporary performance, nurturing and presenting emerging creative talent in contemporary performance art.
	Research Resources Lancaster University Links	University of Bristol - Practice as Research in Performance website Live Art Archive, Nottingham Trent University Theatre Sudies, Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University
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