Starting to write character

This online workshop is for anyone over 18 who is thinking about starting, or has just started, their play writing journey. A workshop featuring ideas and techniques to get inside a characters head and then bring them to life on the page.

William has worked professionally in the theatre since training as an actor in the year 2000. Since then, he has developed a career in translation, dramaturgy, projects and production, and education and knowledge-sharing, in English, Spanish, and multi-lingually.

He began translating plays in 2003, when he found Julio Escalada’s Springtime on a shelf at the Instituto Cervantes, translated it, and then staged it at the Finborough Theatre in London.

Since then, William has translated over 200 plays, many of them new works, for clients including the Royal Court Theatre, the BBC and the Gate, and for productions at the Old Vic and the Edinburgh International and Fringe Festivals.

William’s translations of drama have been performed in the UK, US, Ireland, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Germany and Austria, and several have been published. He has also worked in other genres such as non-fiction, poetry, and novels.