Write With… is an on-line communal work session to nurture creativity, carve out time to be a playwright and hold yourself accountable to your goals as a professional playwright.
You can join us at home, on the train, in a café – anywhere that you might carve out time to be a writer.
These sessions are not an opportunity to share work, receive feedback on your work or pitch ideas to either Sherman Theatre or Theatr Clwyd – it is to focus on the process of writing, build community and find support with fellow playwrights.
This session of Write With… will be led by Azuka Oforka.
Azuka Oforka is a playwright and screenwriter originally from London, she is now based in Wales. Azuka was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, the Standard’s most promising playwright and won Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2024 for her play The Women of Llanrumney, which opened at The Sherman Theatre in May 2024 to fantastic reviews. Azuka Oforka wrote the Theatre-in-Education tour Cross the Line for the Lyric Hammersmith, a brand-new intervention production on county lines that toured primary schools, youth clubs and pupil referral units across Hammersmith & Fulham in summer 2025. Cross the Line won the 2025 UK Theatre Award for Excellence in Arts Education, and it is returning in 2026 for another tour.
Azuka is currently under commission at several theatres, including Sherman Theatre, Welsh
National Theatre and is on a year-long attachment at the Royal Court Theatre. Azuka was a participant in the inaugural ‘Jed Mercurio Mentorship Programme’, where she was mentored by writer and showrunner Emma Frost. Azuka was also a participant on the BBC Writers Welsh Voices scheme in 2022, and is currently on the ScreenSkills Regional Breakthrough Writers programme, where she’s developing an original drama with ITV’s 5 Act Productions.
Azuka is passionate about telling stories that centre flawed, complex women and shine a light
on underrepresented, marginalised communities in both historical and contemporary settings.
Write With… is delivered in partnership with Sherman Theatre.
