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 – 4.30pm: 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 

• 3rd March: Tom Moran. All spaces now filled.
• 7th April
• 12th May
• 9th June
• 14th July
• 11th August
• 15th September
• 13th October
• 10th November
• 8th December

March  Guest Playwright | Tom Moran

Tom Moran is an actor-writer whose latest solo show, Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar, played The Abbey Theatre following its debut at Dublin Fringe, where it was awarded the Fishamble New Writing Award. In the year ahead, the show will tour Off-Broadway to The Irish Rep Theatre followed by a US Tour having sold out runs at Edinburgh Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, Project Arts Centre as well as two Irish national tours.

The play has also been optioned by Deadpan Pictures where Tom is currently developing it for the TV comedy-drama space with support from Screen Ireland. Tom is currently under commission from Headline Pictures and the BBC for a 6 X 60 family drama called The Knocks, a gaelic football western set in the north of Ireland about winning, betrayal and revenge.

As an actor, Tom’s recent credits include; The Christmas Break (Samson Films / BBC),  Staging The Treaty (Anú Productions), West Side Story (Bord Gáis Energy Theatre), Vikings (Octagon Films), Copper Face Jacks: The Musical(The Olympia Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Mill Theatre), The Rivals (Smock Alley), Fierce Notions (Dublin Fringe) andKing Lear (Mill Theatre). And then Tom’s previous writer-performer credits include; Comedically Heartbroken (Smock Alley, 2020), The Belly Button Girl (The New Theatre, 2019) and Lyrics (Theatre Upstairs, 2018).