How to Write Plays that Change the World

Winsome Pinnock

Pier Street
Saturday 19 July
5.45-7.15pm
£3-10 (Pay What You Decide)

What does it mean to write a play that truly makes an impact?

In this inspiring session, world-renowned, award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock (Rockets and Blue Lights, Leave Taking, Talking in Tongues) shares her approach to writing plays that speak to the world and which have the power to change it.

This workshop explores how writers can tackle urgent issues with clarity, care and complexity. How do you balance craft with conviction? What does responsible storytelling look like? How can a play become part of a wider conversation about justice, identity and social change?

Whether you’re grappling with personal stories or global questions, this workshop offers the tools, encouragement and insight to help you write with purpose.

Includes Q&A.

  • Winsome Pinnock is a script writer for stage, radio and screen. Her work has been produced both nationally and internationally. Her award-winning plays include Rockets and Blue Lights, Leave Taking, Mules, One Under, Talking in Tongues, Glutathione, The Principles of Cartography, Water.

    Awards given to her plays include the Alfred Fagon Award, The OffieAward – both for Rockets and Blue Lights, The George Devine Award, the Unity Theatre Trust Award and the Pearson Plays on Stage Award.  

    She was Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and held a UNESCO Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. She is a recipient of the Windham Campbell Award and is the first recipient of the prestigious Golden Harris Theatre Commission inaugurated by New York Theatre Workshop and the playwright Jeremy O Harris. She is currently Professor of Professional Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

    In 2020 she was received as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Pig Heart Boy toured nationally in 2025 and her new play The Authenticator will premier at the National Theatre in 2026.

Tickets

Sat 19 July

5.45pm