Month: August 2017

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Teaching

Creative writing:

Sharmila also teaches playwriting and screenwriting courses at University level and adult education centres: most currently at City Lit.

She has also taught a module on Race and Gender in British Theatre at Theatre Academy London, University of Florida.

For mentoring and one-to-one sessions click here.

Schools / TiE.

Sharmila also runs theatre and screenwriting workshops in schools and works with TiE.

Most recently she was commissioned by the Migration Museum and Tamasha theatre for Corelli College, London called Nothing to Declare: exploration objects and trans-generational migration.

She is also working on the Barbican Box: a portable box filled with the ingredients for making and creating original theatre, visual art or music inspired by our world class arts programme. It is sent out across 40 secondary, SEN schools and FE colleges in east London with a national programme currently being piloted in Manchester.

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Workshops

I am available to teach workshops including:

Writing short filmsReading concept

Playwriting 

Screenwriting

Finding Flow: This workshop will help you to find your voice and flow using deepening practices to help you to tap into your energies

and creativity.   Using a combination of meditation, visualisation, breath and energy work (Kundalini and Tantra) – we will deepen our artistic practice and help to inspire, unblock and free the writer within.   Whether you are new to writing or an experienced practioner, this workshop will help you to not only feel inspired and write better, but also equip you with some self-care techniques that will help you to move forward sustainably with your creative projects.

Writing Women – this workshop will provide a space to explore female characters,  examining the common pitfalls and issues – helping you to sure up your own voice when it comes to writing female characters.

Crossing the Cultural Space – should writers be free to write about whatever culture they like? This one day workshop will provide the space and insights for writers to explore what it’s like to write about a culture that is not your own.

Negotiating cultural space – will provide the space and insights for writers, actors and directors to discuss being part of different cultural spaces.

Let’s talk about sex: this workshop will explore writing about sexuality, erotica and desire.

Unleashing your creativity! A workshop using workshopping and exercises to help you get started on a project or progress it if you’re stuck.

Self care for the artist: creativity needs care – this workshop will help to inspire creativity and self care ensuring longevity and robustness in your creative practice.

Please contract me on sharmilathewriter@gmail.com

 

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1 to 1 sessions

I really enjoy working with writers on a 1 to 1 basis – helping writers and have a holistic and writer centred approach.

I will work with you and your process in a sustainable way to help you to create the best work possible.

I offer:

  • Dramaturgy
  • Script analysis
  • Story development
  • On-going mentoring and coaching

So whether you have a project already underway or are starting something new – we can find a way to help keep you and the project in synch and working together.

So if you need help with:

  • Ideas development
  • Character development
  • Deepening plotlines
  • Structure
  • Writers block
  • Self-care

Drop me a line at sharmilathewrter@gmail.com

I love to help creatives find their inspiration, refine their craft and create the work they want to see!

Sessions can be person or (in London) or carried out remotely. Sliding scale rates apply and discounts to former students.