PGC members have been paired up with an international playwright to share their work and discuss the craft of playwriting with one another. You can tune into these live events and get a glimpse of what these theatre creators have been up to!

Craft Bites International is open and free to the public.

Please note registration is required one hour prior to each session.

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About the Playwrights:

Richie Wilcox is a multi-talented theatre artist who has spent the last fifteen years creating, devising and writing original works. Wilcox is the author of New Waterford Boy, Good Grief, and Coal Bowl Queen. They are the founding artistic director of HEIST where they have helped create several acclaimed works including The Princess Show, Frequencies, and Princess Rules. Wilcox has worked as a dramaturg for numerous writers including Gillian Clark, Tara Taylor, Lily Falk and Garry Williams. They have served as a dramaturg for the annual Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre retreat and have been a guest dramaturg for the Dalhousie University Playwrights course multiple times. Wilcox served as the artistic director of Ship’s Company Theatre where they premiered award-winning original productions such as Good Grief and Dayboil. Wilcox is a Merritt-award winner in acting and playwriting, a past Mayor’s Award for Emerging Theatre Artist recipient and a Queen’s Jubilee Medal recipient. Most recently, Wilcox directed the widely-acclaimed production of Casey & Diana at Neptune Theatre.

James Ley is an award-winning writer living in Glasgow. He wrote and directed Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party) winner of a Scotsman Fringe First in 2022 and nominated for a CATS Award 2023 (Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) for Best New Play.

James was co-writer on Maggie & Me (National Theatre of Scotland). His other plays include Wilf (Traverse Theatre) and Love Song to Lavender Menace (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Summerhall, SoHo Playhouse, New York). James is under commission to Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Wonder Fools.

A BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices 2022/2023 and Edinburgh Film Festival Talent Lab alumni, James has written a feature adaptation of Love Song to Lavender Menace, in development with Compact Pictures. He is currently developing his gay action comedy short film Sleazy Tiger with Short Circuit through the Sharp Shorts scheme. He has just been awarded First Feature funding from Short Circuit to adapt Ode to Joy into his first feature as writer/director.

Our partner for this session is Playwrights Studio, Scotland. Learn more about them here.