Mary Cooper writes for theatre, radio and television.
mary cooper
writer
producer, researcher,
project & workshop leader,
mentor & dramaturg
writer,
project & workshop leader,
teacher, mentor & dramaturg
uk, international, M6 Theatre, M6
mary cooper writer
writer
Mary has extensive experience in teaching creative writing in universities, colleges, schools and in the community, and in mentoring emerging writers.
I have taught creative writing at Huddersfield University, Leeds University and, currently, Bolton University where I am a Senior Lecturer (0.4). I have also led courses for the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank, Maddingley Hall, Cambridge, and Northern College, Barnsley.
In a collaboration between Bolton University, the Arvon Foundation and the Chinese Arts Centre, I set up and ran The Writer’s Pathway, a distance-learning Creative Writing Course aimed at writers of Chinese inheritance. I continue to mentor some of the writers who took part.
I have devised and led playwrighting courses and workshops for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Sheffield Crucible Theatre and North West Playwrights. In the last two years I have mentored new writers for Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah, Yellow Earth Theatre Company and The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
Kumiko Mendl
Artistic Director Yellow Earth Theatre
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Teacher, Mentor & Dramaturg
Mary worked with one of our new Dim Sum Nights writers based in Manchester. The initial script required quite a bit of reworking and rethinking but through skillful mentoring and guidance by Mary the finished piece worked extremely well for the actors and the audience and I know the writer was thrilled with the reception it had. I would not hesitate to recommend Mary as a dramaturge and mentor.
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