Teaching Biography
Since September 2022, James has been a part time Lecturer in Scriptwriting at The University of East Anglia, teaching and co-convening BA and MA modules alongside Steve Waters, Ben Musgrave, Sian Evans and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Since January 2022, James has been a Visiting Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Norwich University of The Arts.
Since September 2023, James has been a playwriting tutor for The National Theatre's New Views Programme, a nationwide playwriting competition for young people in which the winning plays get a rehearsed reading on the National's stages.
Since March 2022, James has been an Arvon Writing Tutor. In 2022, James co-tutored with Chris Thorpe and Tanika Gupta a week-long online writing course for Arvon called Playwriting: Asserting and Celebrating Diversity. In 2023, James co-tutored with novelist Eliza Clark a week-long Starting To Write residential retreat at Arvon's The Hurst in Shropshire.
Between 2017-2021, James taught creative writing at Norwich Theatre Royal where he created and ran the courses Introduction To Scriptwriting, Advanced Playwriting and Writing For Performance.
For Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, James co-delivers the ACE funded Tiny Plays Big Ideas in which he teaches primary school children across Bury St Edmunds how to write a short play. The strongest script submissions are then staged at Theatre Royal BSE. The project is now in its forth successful year.
With The Marina Theatre Lowestoft, James co-created the ACE funded Untold Tales Playwriting Festival in which James taught primary school children across Suffolk how to write a short play. The strongest script submissions were then staged at The Marina Theatre. The project ran for three years between 2017-2020.
With Greshams School, James co-created The Greshams School Playwriting Festival in which James teaches writers representing each house in the school how to write a short play. The strongest submissions are then staged in Greshams' Auden Theatre. The festival is now in it's forth successful year.
James has designed and delivered creative writing workshops and courses for many other organisations including The University Of Suffolk, The University Of Essex, Creative Arts East, Queer Britain, Revoluton Arts, Norfolk Library Service, Norfolk Wild Life Trust, Out On The Page, Nottingham Writers Studio, London Queer Writers, New Wolsey Ipswich, Luton Hat Factory and Leicester Curve.
James is currently writing a handbook on scriptwriting craft, how to start out as a writer and how to sustain a freelance writing career outside of the cities. The book was commissioned by Story Machine as part of their You Are A Writer series and is due to published by Story Machine in Spring 2024, accompanied by a series of writing workshops.
To contact James about 1-on-1 writing mentoring or about running a writing workshop/course for your organisation, click here.
For news about James's forthcoming writing workshops, click here.
Since September 2022, James has been a part time Lecturer in Scriptwriting at The University of East Anglia, teaching and co-convening BA and MA modules alongside Steve Waters, Ben Musgrave, Sian Evans and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Since January 2022, James has been a Visiting Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Norwich University of The Arts.
Since September 2023, James has been a playwriting tutor for The National Theatre's New Views Programme, a nationwide playwriting competition for young people in which the winning plays get a rehearsed reading on the National's stages.
Since March 2022, James has been an Arvon Writing Tutor. In 2022, James co-tutored with Chris Thorpe and Tanika Gupta a week-long online writing course for Arvon called Playwriting: Asserting and Celebrating Diversity. In 2023, James co-tutored with novelist Eliza Clark a week-long Starting To Write residential retreat at Arvon's The Hurst in Shropshire.
Between 2017-2021, James taught creative writing at Norwich Theatre Royal where he created and ran the courses Introduction To Scriptwriting, Advanced Playwriting and Writing For Performance.
For Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, James co-delivers the ACE funded Tiny Plays Big Ideas in which he teaches primary school children across Bury St Edmunds how to write a short play. The strongest script submissions are then staged at Theatre Royal BSE. The project is now in its forth successful year.
With The Marina Theatre Lowestoft, James co-created the ACE funded Untold Tales Playwriting Festival in which James taught primary school children across Suffolk how to write a short play. The strongest script submissions were then staged at The Marina Theatre. The project ran for three years between 2017-2020.
With Greshams School, James co-created The Greshams School Playwriting Festival in which James teaches writers representing each house in the school how to write a short play. The strongest submissions are then staged in Greshams' Auden Theatre. The festival is now in it's forth successful year.
James has designed and delivered creative writing workshops and courses for many other organisations including The University Of Suffolk, The University Of Essex, Creative Arts East, Queer Britain, Revoluton Arts, Norfolk Library Service, Norfolk Wild Life Trust, Out On The Page, Nottingham Writers Studio, London Queer Writers, New Wolsey Ipswich, Luton Hat Factory and Leicester Curve.
James is currently writing a handbook on scriptwriting craft, how to start out as a writer and how to sustain a freelance writing career outside of the cities. The book was commissioned by Story Machine as part of their You Are A Writer series and is due to published by Story Machine in Spring 2024, accompanied by a series of writing workshops.
To contact James about 1-on-1 writing mentoring or about running a writing workshop/course for your organisation, click here.
For news about James's forthcoming writing workshops, click here.
