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:

Althea Cunningham: The System (hip hop) script is in active development as we gear up to tour The United Kingdom and North America in the 2027/ 2028 season. As a playwright several plays have been born in the twentieth century. The Snotty Vegan (one act) spent a year in development as she was one of three BIPOC Writers In Residence with Alberta Playwrights Network in 2024. In 2023, The System (hip hop) play spent a year in development through Riser Edmonton (producing incubator) and had a staged reading to culminate the year. In 2021, Sunkiss To Death had an on-line public reading to culminate working with Colleen Murphy (playwright/filmmaker). In 2020, I received my first writing commission through Hip Hop In The Park with 2 Metres (short) play. In 2017, Sweet An Nice (Fl ) had two public readings, one at Script Salon and the other at DaPopo Script series (Halifax, NS). In 2017, Sunkiss (short) was produced by the now defunct Snapshots 10 Minute Play Festival in (Chicago, IL).

Ciaran Fitzgerald: I am an RTS Cymru Award Winning Screenwriter and Playwright from Port Talbot in South Wales. My TV pilot ‘BWMP‘ is the first Welsh language comedy with a disabled protagonist. I have also written from Theatr Clwyd and had work for television in development with the Sherman Theatre Writer’s Group in 2022-23, and the Sherman Theatre Explode Programme in 2023-24. I have also been part of the Oli Lansley Mentoring Scheme For Writers, run by Wildchild. I have Cerebral Palsy, and my lived experience of disability informs much of my writing. I am also a presenter, presenting ‘Y Gymraeg: Hawl Pob Plentyn’, a groundbreaking documentary about access to Welsh medium education for disabled children. I am currently developing a new play ‘A Fragile Hope‘ for the stage.

Our partner for this session is Welsh National Theatre. Learn more about them here.