Making Your Solo Show with Lisa Carroll and Milly Thomas

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

If you are looking for a way to showcase your talent and keep yourself engaged creatively, writing and performing a solo show can be the ideal format. In this session, Milly Thomas and Lisa Carroll, co-authors ‘Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide’ will open up discussion around the monologue form.

The workshop will involve helpful exercises for getting started with writing and finding your own voice. You will also look at the logistical considerations of writing and performing your own work.

Bring a pen and paper - and plenty of ideas and questions!

Trigger warning: we discuss Milly’s play Dust in the workshop, which mentions death by suicide and mental health issues.

ABOUT LISA CARROLL:

Lisa is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and comedian based in Surrey. Lisa trained on the Foundation Course at RADA and graduated from University College Dublin with a B.A in English.

Previous work includes; Three Cities (Edinburgh Fringe), Catcall (RADA), Róisín (Old Red Lion), Snapdragon (Abbey Theatre), Cuckoo, (Soho Theatre, shortlisted for the Papatango Prize and Verity Bargate award) The Reckoning, (C4 Screenwriting) and most recently The Misandrist (Arcola Theatre, shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and BBC Comedy Room).

She has completed writing residencies at the National Theatre in London, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is currently under commission to Ireland’s National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, writing a new original play. Lisa has also written a book with Milly Thomas, Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide, published by Nick Hern.

Lisa is passionate about teaching the craft of playwriting and has facilitated courses and workshops for City Academy, The Mono Box, Soho Theatre, and the RSC among others. She regularly runs drop in workshops on Zoom and offers one-to-one script feedback services and creative coaching to aspiring writers.

ABOUT MILLY THOMAS:
Milly is an actor, writer and producer. She recently adapted and executive produced Erik AxlSund’s thriller "The Crow Girl" as a 6 part series for Paramount+ with Buccaneer Media, starring Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly and Dougray Scott.

Her play ‘Dust’ ran at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, with Milly receiving the Stage Edinburgh Award for her performance. ‘Dust’ transferred from a sold out Edinburgh run to the Soho Theatre in 2018 where it was nominated for two WhatOnStage Awards including Best New Play. ‘Dust’ then transferred to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios for a six week run that same year and then to the ‘New York Theatre Workshop’ in New York in 2019.

She has written episodes of ‘River City’ for BBC Scotland and ‘Clique’ for BBC3. She's had projects in development with NBC Universal, See-Saw Films and Merman (among others) and has been in writers’ rooms for HBO, Tiger Aspect, Balloon Entertainment, Nevision, Pure Grass Films and Brown Eyed Boy. She has taken part in the Channel4 4Screenwriting, Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab, and was named as one of Deadline's 'Rising Brits to Watch' in 2020. She is currently co-writing a biopic of Madame Tussaud with Andy Serkis for The Imaginarium.

Milly can’t stand the word ‘likeable’ and likes to think she’s funny.

Copies of Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide will be available to buy at SCRUM Studios, or you can order it here: https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/making-your-solo-show

PAY WHAT YOU CAN or PAY IT FORWARD:

Offering affordable training is at the heart of our charitable objectives. Though classes with our practitioners usually cost upwards of £30, we offer places at a pay-what-you-can rate. For some, this might mean paying 1p. For others, paying more means you’re covering our facilitators fee and staffing costs, making it possible for us to host future PWYC workshops seasons. We give a suggested figure of £15 for those who can.

Attendees must be 18+

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