Tutor information
Shaun McCarthy
Shaun McCarthy has had over a dozen stage plays professionally produced and a range of radio dramas broadcast. His adaptations include JM Synge’s ‘The Aran Islands’ (BBC R4 Classic Serial), a stage version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ that was a critique of David Cameron’s ‘big society’ and had a happy, unexpected ending; and a re-set of Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ to Oxford 1963. Shaun teaches a range of creative writing courses for OUDCE, runs Hooligan Theatre Productions to develop his new plays and co-runs the writing events and residential writers’ retreats company ‘Stage and Page' in the UK and Italy.
Courses
A workshop-based course exploring the key skills required to create an original and compelling stage drama, with reference to current creative practice in new writing in professional theatres.
Dialogue is a key writing skill for stage and screen script writers and for prose fiction and non-fiction authors. This course will explore the challenges and opportunities of writing compelling dialogue through inclusive and creative workshops.