Launched last year when the theatre opened, this unique year-long playwriting course enables new playwrights to hone their craft by combining study with production in a professional theatre context.
All writers can attend the company's open access workshops.
If they wish to be considered for its workshop series, they can submit plays to a readers' panel. Once they have progressed through the workshops, writers can be short-listed for the Writers Attachment Programme. Each year, six writers are invited to join the programme and given bursaries to support their studies and enable them to produce a first draft play. The Soho Theatre Company opened its new building on the site of an old synagogue in March 2000 and is the country's first-ever theatre and writers' centre. The company receives approximately 2,000 unsolicited scripts per year and each script is read by a panel of readers.