Start Screenwriting: Screenwriting Workshops at Tyneside Cinema
Event information
Where: Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6QG, United Kingdom
Date: Every Wednesday for six weeks, 5 March 2025 – 9 April 2025
Time: 6.00pm–7.30pm
Cost: £35, plus booking fee
Type: Library Workshops
Six weeks of 90-minute writing workshops to help you start writing for the screen
Start Screenwriting is an introductory six week writing course for those interested in trying screenwriting for the first time or transferring their skills from prose or theatre writing. You’ll work with northeast based screenwriter and actor Chess Tomlinson to learn more about writing for the screen. Throughout the course you will fly through format, story structure, writing dialogue, displaying character through action and much more – to build confidence to start off your screenwriting journey.
A limited number of free tickets are available to people for whom the cost is prohibitive. Please contact Margot Miltenberger [email protected]
“While I felt quite intimidated by screenwriting before I started the course, I feel more confident now that I could write a short screenplay myself.”
– Start Screenwriting participant
About the workshop facilitator
Chess Tomlinson is a Geordie writer/performer who trained at RCS in Glasgow and is currently based in Gateshead. They received their first commission as a writer to be one of BBC Comedy’s Laugh Lessons 2021 writer/performers, filming Becoming a Karen produced by Storymade and NECHH, this was then nominated for an RTS Comedy and Entertainment award 2022 but didn’t win and got drunk. Chess has projects in development with established and indie production companies, runner up of David Nobbs Memorial Award, BBC Comedy Collective and Tyneside Cinema Screenwriter in Residence 2024, is a BAFTA Connect member and recipient of DYCP ACE, Screen Skills, Open Horizons and Comedy 50:50 bursaries.
A note for our Start Screenwriting alumni
This is the same Start Screenwriting course led by Chess at Tyneside Cinema in 2024. You are welcome to attend the course again, but please note that the content will be the same.
