Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 6th Oct, 2025
7:00pm - 9:00pm
The Audio World is your Oyster
In an audio drama you can go anywhere. You can jump from Lewisham to China to outer space and back again in a handful of scenes without ever hiking your production costs … You can borrow story telling forms from film, theatre, poetry and the novel. With this kind of freedom you can absolutely tell it your way …
In this class we’ll talk about the possibilities that audio drama offers you the writer and we’ll listen to extracts of plays that demonstrate some of this range. So much of writing is a process of discovery – finding the story you want to tell. Katie’s ambition for this class is to help you discover what you’d most like to write – for this most limber of mediums. The class will include a short exercise in thinking about acoustics and sound effects and also a Q and A.
Whether you’re new to writing, polishing your umpteenth draft, or simply want to try a taster of a different style, form, or genre, we’re confident you’ll enjoy and be inspired by these focused shorter masterclass and workshop sessions. All hosted by Moniack Mhor on Zoom Pro, usually with an opportunity to ask questions too.
Tutor
Katie Hims is a writer for stage, screen and radio. Her recent stage work includes Variations (National Theatre Connections), Three Minutes After Midnight (The Globe Theatre), The Stranger on the Bridge (Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and Billy the Girl (Clean Break at Soho Theatre.) Katie was lead writer on the BBC Radio 4 series Home Front for five seasons. She also writes for BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. Other award-winning radio includes Black Eyed Girls (BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), Lost Property (BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama) and Waterloo Station (Writer’s Guild Award for Best Original Radio Drama). Radio adaptations include Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Middlemarch and The Martin Beck Killings. Katie is currently working on a TV treatment for Hooley Productions, a new drama for BBC Radio 3, and is on attachment to the National Theatre Studio. Her stage play The Trial of Josie K ran at The Unicorn Theatre in London in early 2023.
Fees
We are running this as a ‘pay as you can’ event. Please see our booking options below. By paying our standard price wherever possible you help us give people on lower incomes more opportunities to attend, thank you.
We have a limited number of free places for this event, if these are showing as not available and you need a free place to be able to access the event, please email a request to us on online@moniackmhor.org.uk, thank you.
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