Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival is an annual theatre festival supporting writers with a meaningful connection to Hull to create and develop new plays in the city.
Inspired by scratch nights, Fresh Ink showcases early versions of new plays, commissioned especially for the festival.
It features script-in-hand performances alongside writer workshops, industry talks and two keynote speeches, across two venues in Hull’s Fruit Market quarter.
Plays
Keeper
Ellen Brammar
No Scrap, No Chips
Jim Norris
Everyone We Know Has Kids
Samuel Sims and Jay Grainger
Colonel Gadaddy
Noor Sobka
The Pull Up
Sean Climie
Roll to React
Michelle Kelly
Meet You at the Corner
Laura Wilson
Middle Child Writers’ Group - Part One and Two
Various Writers
Isabelle
Marc Graham
Workshops
How to Experiment with Form
Javaad Alipoor
How to Write Class
Holly Beasley-Garrigan
How to Write Across Media
Lydia Marchant
How to Write About Place
Nathan Queeley Dennis
How to Start Writing Plays
Tom Wells
Talks
How I Explore Transfem Rage on Stage
Tabby Lamb
How I Make Political Work in an Unstable Climate
Cheryl Martin (Red Ladder)
How I Review New Work
Holly Williams (Exeunt Magazine)
How I Amplify Real Voices
Matt Woodhead (LUNG Theatre)
Keynote Speech
Ola Animashawun (National Theatre)
Keynote Speech
Maureen Lennon
Meet the Writers
Fresh Ink 2025 Commissioned Playwrights
Eight writers were selected from 117 applicants to write seven new paid commissions for the 2025 festival
