The Mavens is a female-centric, mentored playwright development programme facilitated by the dlr Mill Theatre in partnership with the Writers Guild of Ireland
Are you a female playwright who wants to invest in her craft? You may have taken a career break? Now you want to commit to your writing practice .
Maybe you got sidetracked by caring responsibilities? Now you want to write women characters like yourself older and bolder for the stage.
This may be the paid opportunity with a writing peer group you didn’t know you were looking for.
The Mavens is an initiative to create a positive policy measure, promoting equal opportunity and access for playwrights of an age and gender that have historically been underserved in the Irish Theatre ecology. As a theatre that regularly produces Shakespeare from the white colonial patriarchal canon, the focus on gender and age ensures diversity in our artistic activities.
This project seeks to upskill, encourage and empower later age female playwrights. We create space for those returning to practise after leaving due to systemic unconscious bias or caring career breaks. The paid structure of this programme is cognisant of reduced socio-economic status due to the inequity of care work of many older female artists. We include travel costs to ensure that location is not a deterrent to applicants. We take other measures to increase accessibility too, including transferring a number of sessions online.
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