Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival 2024
The inaugural edition of a new festival showcasing plays by Hull writers
The inaugural 2024 edition featured script-in-hand performances in a marquee on Stage@TheDock, an amphitheatre by the river Hull, alongside a sharing of short scenes by the Middle Child Writers’ Group and a teaser of Biting Point, Middle Child’s 2025 play by Sid Sagar.
The programme also include writer workshops and industry talks at the pop-up space on Pier Street and a keynote speech from David Byrne, artistic director of the Royal Court.
Fresh Ink 2024 was produced by co-founders Middle Child and sponsored by co-founders Wykeland, with support from the J F Brignall Charitable Trust.
The 2024 festival was also supported Hull City Council, I Am Fund, Two Ridings Community Foundation, Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust, Hull Truck Theatre, the Warren Youth Project and the Garrick Charitable Trust.
20-21 July 2024
Stage@TheDock
Humber Street, Hull
Pop-Up Space
Pier Street, Hull
Plays
No Woman Is an Island
Rosie Race
Can We Be Friends?
Hannah Scorer
Isabelle
Marc Graham
Jack & Gill
Grace Waga Glevey
Phobia
Andrew Houghton
Senzeni Na?
Prince Kundai
Middle Child Writers’ Group
Various Writers
Biting Point
Sid Sagar
Workshops
Demystifying Writers’ Contracts
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Fun with Form
Travis Alabanza
Generating Ideas
Amy Trigg
Writing for Self
Yolanda Mercy
Responding to Place
James Phillips
Deepening Ideas
Luke Barnes
How to Read Plays
Rachael Abbey
Talks
Keynote Speech
David Byrne, Royal Court
Getting an Agent
Giles Smart, United Agents
PR for Writers
Emma Berge, Mobius Industries
How Local Work is Commissioned
Hull Truck Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Back to Ours, Silent Uproar and Middle Child
Building a Career in Hull
Maureen Lennon, Lydia Marchant and Tom Wells
Writers
Rosie Race
Originally from Hull, Rosie Race graduated from RADA in 2018. She is a freelance actor, writer and a core member of Quirk Theatre in Devon.
She works as a movement director and is associate artist at Theatre Royal Plymouth, where her first full-length show Us Against The World opened in February 2024.
Rosie is an associate lecturer in Acting and Physical Performance at the University of Plymouth.
Her second play Filthy Animal was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award 2024.
Hannah Scorer
Hannah lives in Hull and works in public health communications. She has previously worked as a journalist.
She started writing for theatre after taking part in the 2019 Middle Child Writers’ Group. Since then, she has written for the 2020 Middle Child panto and Out Loud scratch night in 2023.
She enjoys being outside walking, rock climbing, doing yoga and getting excited about new hobbies – currently trialing and loving aerial hoop.
Marc Graham
Marc Graham is an actor who predominantly works in theatre. He has lived in Hull for 13 years, after graduating from the University of Hull and is a co-founder of Middle Child.
Marc’s recent credits include The Climbers (Theatre By The Lake), A Very Expensive Poison (Old Vic), Brighton Rock (UK Tour) and various Middle Child pantomimes, as the dame.
Marc took part in the 2019 Middle Child Writers’ Group and this is his first commission as a writer.
Grace Waga Glevey
Grace is a theatre and television maker from Scunthorpe.
She recently founded Hani Projects, a not-for-profit theatre and arts production company committed to developing and attracting new work in and to Humberside.
She has trained with the Old Vic as a young theatre maker and in Sheffield Theatres’ New Dramaturgs Group.
Her article, Mabuhay, on mixed race identity was published in FOYER magazine.
Andrew Houghton
Andrew was born and raised in Hull and loved being part of the city’s arts scene before heading off to university.
ince studying at Guildford School of Acting, they have been creating LGBTQ+ focused work with the company they co-founded, Pink Milk Theatre.
They usually write from experience, with the intent to perform their own work, and Fresh Ink marks their first time stepping away from this, with a completely fictional duologue.
Prince Kundai
Prince Kundai is a Hull-raised creative and a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Prince made his acting debut playing Sutter in the critically-acclaimed production of Bootycandy at the Gate Theatre in London.
Following the success of Bootycandy, Prince went on to play Chuck in Paper Cut at the Park Theatre and understudy in the West End production of Slave Play. Prince has also worked with The Globe, Yard Theatre and Telluric on creative projects.
Fresh Ink marks Prince Kundai’s first venture in writing.