We’re inviting you to join us in the Abbey Bar to do your day’s writing work here, in community with other theatre artists. Pen to paper. Fingers to keyboard. However you like to get it done.

We have a different guest playwright with us every month as a host. They are trying to write something too. They’ll take some time out for a Q&A before lunch to share reflections about their writing process, answer your questions, and talk about how they like to get it done.

This isn’t a workshop – it’s a quiet, co-working gathering that ring-fences time for you to write. There aren’t any craft exercises or sharing of work. It’s an opportunity for inspiration, solidarity and for getting your idea down on paper. It’s free and open to playwrights and performance makers of any experience level. You can be writing a play, a blurb, a funding application or a secret something you aren’t ready to talk about yet.

What to expect 

10am – 10:30am: Pick your seat, have a coffee, get comfortable and chat to your fellow writers

10:30am – 12.30pm: Quiet writing time

12:30pm – 1:30pm Q & A with our guest playwright about their writing process

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Lunch break

2:30pm – 4.00pm: Quiet writing time

Please note: This event takes place in the Abbey Bar. We have tables, chairs, high stools and benches. You’ll need to bring your laptop, and we recommend you bring it charged as plugs are limited. We’re a busy working theatre so the work space won’t be silent – this will work best for you if you like a bit of background noise while you write. The Abbey Bar is only accessible via stairs. Tickets are limited to one per person.

2025 Dates 

• 15th September – registration now closed
• 13th October
• 10th November
• 8th December

September guest playwright: Stacey Gregg 

Stacey Gregg has written and directed for Sky, HBO, Apple and Netflix.

HERE BEFORE written and directed by Gregg and starring Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough debuted at SXSW and is streaming on Amazon.

Gregg is a Seamus Heaney Fellow and MacDowell Fellow.

Their theatre work and live art has been produced at The Abbey Theatre, The Royal Court, Clean Break, The National Theatre, Soho Theatre, The Bush Theatre, The Guardian, Manchester Royal Exchange among others, has toured internationally and is published by Nick Hern Books and Bloomsbury. Their plays have featured on university syllabus. Links to secondary criticism to follow.

They are repped by Lark Management and UTA.