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.
This is an opportunity to have some structured time to dedicate to your writing, to hold yourself accountable to your writing goals, to check in with your fellow playwrights and get some writing done. These sessions will be held by teams at Sherman Theatre and Stiwdio Clwyd. There won’t be a Guest Writer holding this session but time will be set aside for a short Q&A with the experienced dramaturgs from Sherman Theatre and Stiwdio Clwyd. Are you feeling stuck and want ideas to move forward? Are you looking for encouragement or motivation for what you’re working on? Do you want to talk through a moment in a script for a new perspective?
Join us for support and work your writing muscles!
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 act of writing, the process of your writing, build community and find support with fellow playwrights.
Write With… is delivered in partnership with Sherman Theatre.
These sessions will be supported by…
Davina Moss – Literary Manager at Sherman Theatre –
Davina joined the Sherman after four years serving as Literary Manager at Hampstead Theatre in London. Previous employment includes Public Theater (New York) and New Works at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. As a freelance dramaturg, significant projects include the first production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venetian ghetto with Italian-American theatre collective Compagnia de’ Colombari, and work with the Bruntwood Prize, Kali Theatre and the BBC. She was the recipient of the Olwen Wymark award for Encouragement in Theatre, awarded by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, nominated by Rebecca Jade Hammond.
Lowri Morgan – Literary Associate at Sherman Theatre –
Lowri is a bilingual writer and dramaturg from Caernarfon in North Wales. Lowri’s first play Cuddio was produced by University of Wales Trinity St David and performed by the graduating cohort. She has also written on welsh TV Soap Opera Rownd a Rownd and was part of Literature Wales’s Representing Wales cohort 2024-2025. Last year, Lowri’s retelling of the Mabinogi myth Ceridwen was produced by the Urdd National Eisteddfod and toured across Wales. Since working at the Sherman for three years Lowri’s freelance dramaturgy practice has supported many self-produced works in various stages and development as well as theatre companies like Cwmni’r Fran Wen and Theatr Iolo. Lowri is also a trained audio describer and translator.
Suzanne Bell – Director of Stiwdio Clwyd –
Suzanne Bell has over 20 years professional experience working as a Dramaturg in new writing and artist development in theatres and supporting the development of artists across the UK and internationally. In January 2025 she joined Theatr Clwyd as Director of Stiwdio Clwyd, a new initiative to support the development of Welsh and Wales based professional theatre-makers. She was Dramaturg at the Royal Exchange Theatre where she oversaw the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting She has led artist development programmes and workshops at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Royal Court Theatre, Headlong, Soho Theatre, Live Theatre, Gate Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, various universities and for companies in Brazil, Turkey, Canada and the USA. Suzanne was the first Literary Manager and Dramaturg to be appointed at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Kenneth Tynan Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy. In 2020, she was awarded the Olwen Wymark Award for Encouragement in Theatre, awarded by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, nominated by Winsome Pinnock.
