Developing A Creative Partnership
Free workshop
Led by Amy Crighton and Katrina Bennett, Developing A Creative Partnership, was a workshop hosted at London Performance Studios.
Writer/Director duo Katrina Bennett and Amy Crighton have been working collaboratively for over 2 years as a creative pair and now run the company Votive Theatre together. In this workshop they will take you through the first steps of building a sustainable collaborative relationship that could also one day lead to a company, show or joint career. Covering everything from the first coffee meeting to giving respectful criticism and developing work together.
This workshop is delivered from the point of view of a director and writer so will cover topics
that might be specific to those creative groups.
Amy Crighton is a Midlands based freelance theatre director and dramaturg with a particular
focus on developing new work in conjunction with writers, and an interest in working with
new technologies. Amy spent 3 years at the Nottingham New Theatre whilst at the University
of Nottingham where she worked as a director, actor, producer and stage manager, with one
of her productions being selected to be part of the National Student Drama Festival 2019.
Since then, she has worked with companies such as Sheffield Theatres, the Royal Exchange
and the Young Vic, and is currently the Literary Assistant at the Bush Theatre.
Katrina Bennett is a scriptwriter from Warwickshire. Initially pursuing a journalism career, she
was co-editor of the award-winning publication RAZZ Magazine and was personally
nominated for national student journalism awards. Katrina is now an MA student at the Royal
Central School of Speech and Drama, having received a full scholarship to study Writing for
Stage and Broadcast Media. She has been recognised for her writing as a winner of
Watersprite Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition in 2021, and placed in the second round
of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.