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2nd December 2025
Are you a budding playwright looking to hone your craft and explore the exciting world of storytelling, character, and dialogue?
Discover our spring 2026 part-time evening course. This course is designed for writers who already have some experience or have completed a beginner course and want to develop, refine, and hear their work performed by actors.
Our accessible courses offer both in-person and online options.
📝 In Person: Tuesday 13th January to Tuesday 24th March 2026
💻 Online: Wednesday 14th Jan to Wednesday 25th March 2026
Course Highlights:
– Produce a 10-minute play
– Actor readings of your plays in class
– Receive live feedback on dialogue, pacing, and dramatic impact
– Develop confidence in responding to performance interpretation
🕒 Times: 18:00 – 20:00
✨ Term Fee: £270.00
Meet your Tutor: Bea Roberts
Bea Roberts is a multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter from the west country. Her play And Then Come The Nightjars won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, made her a Finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was adapted into a feature film with director Paul Robinson. The movie won Best Independent Film at the Chichester International Film Festival and was picked as one of Rolling Stone UK’s Top 23 Films of 2023.
Her one-woman/no-woman show Infinity Pool: A modern re-telling of Madame Bovary had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, was nominated for a Total Theatre award and was optioned by Hartswood Films for development with producer Helena Murphy. Bea’s modern feminist adaptation of Little Mermaid won Best Play for Children & Young People at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards. Bea has written for the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Young Vic and most recently, Ivy Tiller; Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer starring Fleabag’s Jenny Rainsford for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2023, Bea was shortlisted for the George Devine Playwriting Award. She is currently writing a folk horror for the Bristol Old Vic theatre.
In screen work, Bea was selected for the BAFTA Connect programme, was part of the BBC Writers’ Academy 2022-23 and now writes for BBC’s EastEnders. Bea is also developing original work for screen with BBC Studios, Firebird Pictures and Hartswood Films and was part of the inaugural Scream Queens horror writing programme supported by the BFI.
In addition to her own writing work, Bea was an associate lecturer on the Script Writing courses at UWE and has over 15 years of experience in leading workshops on creative writing and storytelling. She’s delivered workshops for Theatre503, Papatango, Graeae, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Royal Bath, The Bolton Octagon, DownStage Write, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the University of Bath, Shakespeare Schools Festival, the Regional Young Theatre Directors’ Programme and many more.