Rewriting Justice: Clean Break Training

Clean Break

Learn how Clean Break uses playwriting to develop skills and confidence for women in criminal justice settings, and its commission process.

Open to participants who identify as women.Rewriting Justice is a one-day training course for theatre-artists, early career playwrights and criminal justice professionals with a particular interest in how to facilitate playwriting workshops in criminal justice settings, women&#x27;s centres and the community as well as examining the personal and social value of this work. The day will be facilitated by Clean Break’s Artistic Director, Anna Herrmann and playwright Deborah Bruce. Through drama and playwriting exercises, group work and discussion, participants will:<ul><li>Learn creative ideas and exercises for facilitating playwriting with women in criminal justice settings</li><li>Identify best practice when working creatively with adults in vulnerable circumstances</li><li>Hear insights about working in prisons as a playwright for Clean Break </li><li>Explore next steps for those interested in pursuing this field as a career </li></ul>**A limited number of bursary places are available to anyone who has direct personal (not professional) experience of the criminal justice system.To apply for these, please write explaining your interest in the training event to events@cleanbreak.org.uk marking your email with BURSARY REQUEST in the subject heading, by 9am on 6 October 2022.If you have any access requirements you would like us to be aware of, please contact events@cleanbreak.org.uk and let us know. About the Facilitators Anna Herrmann is Artistic Director of Clean Break. She has been working in the field of theatre and social change for over thirty years, specialising in theatre and participation in the UK and abroad. She joined Clean Break as Head of Education in 2002, becoming Joint Artistic Director/Joint CEO in 2018. As Joint Artistic Director she has directed Through This Mist (co-directed with Róisín McBrinn), Sweatbox (national tour and film), and Not Pretty Like The Rainbow (national tour). In July 2020 Anna was elected as Co-chair of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, stepping down in July 2022. Deborah Bruce is a theatre director and playwright, she was Clean Break&#x27;s Writer in Residence between 2016-18, and is currently Writer in Residence at Hampstead Theatre. Her theatre work includes Raya (Hampstead Theatre) Guidesky and I (Orange Tree Theatre), Kat and Zaccy (Headlong/BBC Unprecedented) Our Father (Rada); The House They Grew up In (Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre); The Distance (Orange Tree/Sheffield Theatres/Melbourne Theatre Company); Joanne (Soho Theatre/Clean Break); Same (National Theatre – NT Theatre Connections Festival) and Godchild (Hampstead Downstairs). 
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