I had a letter in the post from Southampton today.

Would you like to be part of the new Nuffield Theatre Writers Group?

It seems that “competition for places has been unusually fierce”, but I’m in. Boy, am I delighted.

For the next two years I will be under the auspices of the Nuffield’s Script Executive John Burgess, a freelance director well known for his productions of new plays and who has worked at the National Theatre, where he founded (with Director/Writer Peter Gill) the NT Studio - the theatre’s experimental wing, and was Head of New Writing from 1989 to 1994.

Past graduates of the writing group have gone on to have work produced in the West End, including Kate Betts who beat off competition from more than 2000 entrants to win Channel 4’s The Play’s The Thing.

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