Coming up…
November 2025
First Draft Club
Workshops for playwrights and theatre makers.
Workshop — Feb 2025
Get Writing, Keep Writing: A Jumpstart Workshop
“It has given me a plan a start. I feel guided to have an idea and chase it up”
November Workshop Participant
Whether you're stepping into a brand-new idea or ready to breathe life back into a project that’s been waiting for you, this focused 2.5-hour online workshop is the perfect way to set your creative year in motion.
A new year brings fresh energy — ideal for meeting (or re-meeting) that niggling idea with clarity and intention. Through a series of structured exercises, we’ll explore how to begin or begin again with purpose. You’ll leave with renewed momentum, practical tools to sustain your writing practice, and strategies for navigating the next steps once your draft is underway.
Bring your idea at any stage:
A compelling question you want to explore
A genre calling you forward
A sentence, a few pages, or an incomplete draft
A work-in-progress that needs fresh energy
Workshop Details
📅 Choose your session:
Thursday 05 Feb | 6:15–8:45pm AEDT
Saturday 07 Feb | 10:00am–12:30pm AEDT
💻 Online via Google Meet
💸 Sliding scale: $75–$125
This is a pilot workshop, part of the growing a suite of programs designed to help theatre makers and writers get more drafts done. Come be part of the first step.
“Erica is an engaging and encouraging mentor to help navigate the writing process and help identify the unhelpful habits and patterns of thought that can hold us back in the early stages of writing. She creates a warm and welcoming atmosphere and contextualises her experiences and wisdom in a really useful way.”
November Workshop Participant
About Erica Brennan
Erica Brennan is a Gamilaroi writer, theatre maker, and dramaturg passionate about nurturing new Australian voices. Her work bridges craft, and care helping artists find clarity, structure, and courage in their ideas.
Her plays include Jurassic Bark: Edge of Extinction (Highly Commended for the Griffin Award 2024,) Fortress (Shortlisted The silver Gull 2024 & Theatre 503 Internatinal Award 2025) and Better She Was Never Born, (The Flying Nun 2025, Shortlisted Griffin Lookout 2025.) She is currently on placement as a resident Dramaturge at National Theatre of Paramatta as part of Australian Plays Transform’s Developing the Dramaturge Program where she is also mentored by Jane Harrison. Erica is a founding member and lead devising artist with NINEFOLD, a physical theatre ensemble established in 2012, she holds a Bachelor of Performance from Theatre Nepean (WSU, 2008) and a Master of Applied Theatre Studies (UNE, 2019) and is trained in a varity of somatic lead performance and performance making techniques.
She is currently the First Nations Coordinator for Sydney Fringe, a Sydney Theatre Awards panelist (Mainstage) awards, and the world’s most average balcony gardener. Through building a series of workshops Erica is aiming to share her dramaturgical and performance making practice with a community of artists who want to create bravely, sustainably, and with joy.
🌐 Contact: ericajosephinebrennan@gmail.com