Learn how Clean Break uses playwriting to develop skills and confidence for women in criminal justice settings, and its commission process.
Concessions: £75
Individuals: £95
Organisations: £120
This training takes place in person at Clean Break's building in Kentish Town, London.
**A limited number of bursary places are available to anyone who has direct personal (not professional) experience of the criminal justice system.
To apply for these, please write explaining your interest in the training event to events@cleanbreak.org.uk marking your email with BURSARY REQUEST in the subject heading no later than four weeks ahead of the training date.
If you have any access requirements you would like us to be aware of, please contact events@cleanbreak.org.uk and let us know.
This training is open to participants who are women (this includes cis, intersex, and trans women).
Learn how Clean Break facilitates playwrighting workshops with women in criminal justice and community settings, while examining the personal and social value of this work.
Participants will gain insights from Clean Break’s four decades of using playwrighting to help women find their voices and own their stories.
Rewriting Justice is a one-day training course for theatre-artists, playwrights, facilitators and criminal justice professionals with an interest in delivering playwriting workshops in criminal justice settings, women's centres and the community.
Through drama and playwriting exercises, group work and discussion, participants will:
The only theatre company of its kind, Clean Break delivers life changing theatre workshops for women with experience of the criminal justice system, or who are at risk.
Our playwrighting workshops have helped hundreds of women build confidence and skills. Clean Break’s writing programmes have also helped produce award-winning playwrights, providing unique opportunities for women to discover their talents.
Anna Herrmann is Artistic Director of Clean Break. She has been working in the field of theatre and social change for over thirty years, specialising in theatre and participation in the UK and abroad. She joined Clean Break as Head of Education in 2002, becoming Joint Artistic Director/Joint CEO in 2018. With Clean Break she has directed Through This Mist (co-directed with Róisín McBrinn), Sweatbox (national tour and film), Not Pretty Like The Rainbow (national tour) and Catch (national tour). In July 2020 Anna was elected as Co-chair of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, stepping down in July 2022.
Lakesha Arie-Angelo is Clean Break's Associate Artistic Director. She is a theatre director, writer, dramaturg, facilitator and previously Associate Director at Soho Theatre. In her role within Soho Theatre, Lakesha co-led the Writers Lab programme and was lead programmer of theatre in the Upstairs Studio space. Her credits as a Director include The Color Purple (2022 UK tour, for Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome; Nominated for 2023 Black British Theatre Award for Best Musical Production); Sikisa-Life of the Party (Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh, Soho Theatre); Shuck ‘n’ Jive and soft animals (Soho Theatre); Summer Fest and Alive Day (The Bunker Theatre); and The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre).