Creative Hub : Writing/ Acting/Directing in The Script Development Room with Wren Brian

Hub Member Workshop
Writing/Acting/Directing in The Script Development Room

This session will give everyone tools to participate effectively in development workshop settings to help support the journey of the work, whether you are participating as a writer/creator, director, dramaturg, actor, or audience member.

The session will be a crash course in Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process with cake (you don’t have to eat it, but you can!), followed by a discussion of how to apply her principles to development workshops and other methods to help give constructive and meaningful feedback. The focus will be on applying this to situations where there is a playwright having work developed, however, aspects of this can very much be applied to other art forms and collective creations.


Wren Brian is an award-winning Canadian playwright currently based in Scotland dedicated to creating characters that can be played by actors of any gender, ancestry, ability, and/or age while exploring complex themes. Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon (territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & Ta'an Kwäch'än Council) she also lived and worked in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty 1 territory for over 12 years. Production credits include: Bystander (Gwaandak Theatre), Situation (Gwaandak Theatre), When (Climate Change Theatre Action 2021), Now (Climate Change Theatre Action 2023 & 2025), The Investigator (Yukon Digital Theatre Collective), and Billie and the Moon (Manitoba Theatre for Young People). She also won the Harry S. Rintoul Award for Best New Manitoba Play at the Winnipeg Fringe in 2017 for Anomie and was shortlisted for the John Hirsch Emerging Manitoba Writer Award in 2022. She is also a dramaturg, arts administrator and producer. wrenbrian.com

Free/£10