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Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and university tutor whose plays are regularly produced in the UK and abroad. He specializes in writing for youth and marginalized communities and also teaches, blogs, campaigns, fundraises and dramaturgs other writers, with a particular focus on young people’s projects in London’s East End. His plays include Protection, the hip-hop musical Locked In, and How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Sheffield Crucible, 2007), which won the Arts Council’s John Whiting Award, the first time in forty years that an unproduced script had won the award. In 2013, Fin joined Tamasha Theatre Company as co-Artistic Director. As well as writing plays, Fin also has many years of experience teaching playwriting. Whilst associate artist at Tamasha, he founded Schoolwrights, the UK’s first playwrights-in-schools training scheme. As artistic director, he has launched Tamasha Playwrights, a new agency of playwrights-for-hire, offering diverse role models for young people’s projects in inner-city schools. He writes as an occasional contributor to The Stage and The Guardian. Fin recently cofounded a new podcast “Out of the Woods: New Plays from the Balkans” which you can download wherever you find your podcasts.https://tamasha.org.uk/projects/out-of-the-woods-new-plays-from-the-balkans-podcast https://twitter.com/finkennedy

Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and university tutor whose plays are regularly produced in the UK and abroad. He specializes in writing for youth and marginalized communities and also teaches, blogs, campaigns, fundraises and dramaturgs other writers, with a particular focus on young people’s projects in London’s East End. His plays include Protection, the hip-hop musical Locked In, and How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Sheffield Crucible, 2007), which won the Arts Council’s John Whiting Award, the first time in forty years that an unproduced script had won the award. In 2013, Fin joined Tamasha Theatre Company as co-Artistic Director. As well as writing plays, Fin also has many years of experience teaching playwriting. Whilst associate artist at Tamasha, he founded Schoolwrights, the UK’s first playwrights-in-schools training scheme. As artistic director, he has launched Tamasha Playwrights, a new agency of playwrights-for-hire, offering diverse role models for young people’s projects in inner-city schools. He writes as an occasional contributor to The Stage and The Guardian. Fin recently cofounded a new podcast “Out of the Woods: New Plays from the Balkans” which you can download wherever you find your podcasts. <a href="https://tamasha.org.uk/projects/out-of-the-woods-new-plays-from-the-balkans-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tamasha.org.uk/projects/out-of-the-woods-new-plays-from-the-balkans-podcast</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/finkennedy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/finkennedy</a>

Ep 152 - "How Stories Can Change the World" with Fin Kennedy, Playwright, Teacher, University Tutor

Playwright Fin Kennedy was thrust into the heart of the debate about arts funding when he produced a report—called In Battalions, a title taken from a quote from Hamlet—with professional researcher Helen Campbell Pickford into the effects of cuts in public funding to theatres on their production of and development of new writing. In this episode, Fin talks about the origins of the report in a conversation he had with UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaisey and about its findings, as well as speculating on how this will continue to affect the theatre sector and on the motivations behind cutting an area of the UK budget so small that it will have a barely-noticeable effect on the UK deficit. Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright and theatre blogger whose plays are produced in the UK and US. In the UK, he has written for Soho Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Southwark Playhouse, Half Moon Theatre, The Red Room, Birmingham Rep and BBC Radio 4. Fin also has many years’ experience teaching playwriting in schools, youth clubs, and universities. Since 2007 he has been writer-in-residence at Mulberry School in East London, for whom he has co-founded a theatre company and written four new plays which premièred at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is also a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, a member of the Writers’ Guild Theatre Committee and an occasional contributor to The Guardian and The Stage. For more information, see his blog at www.finkennedy.co.uk.

Playwright Fin Kennedy was thrust into the heart of the debate about arts funding when he produced a report—called In Battalions, a title taken from a quote from Hamlet—with professional researcher Helen Campbell Pickford into the effects of cuts in public funding to theatres on their production of and development of new writing. In this episode, Fin talks about the origins of the report in a conversation he had with UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaisey and about its findings, as well as speculating on how this will continue to affect the theatre sector and on the motivations behind cutting an area of the UK budget so small that it will have a barely-noticeable effect on the UK deficit. Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright and theatre blogger whose plays are produced in the UK and US. In the UK, he has written for Soho Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Southwark Playhouse, Half Moon Theatre, The Red Room, Birmingham Rep and BBC Radio 4. Fin also has many years’ experience teaching playwriting in schools, youth clubs, and universities. Since 2007 he has been writer-in-residence at Mulberry School in East London, for whom he has co-founded a theatre company and written four new plays which premièred at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is also a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, a member of the Writers’ Guild Theatre Committee and an occasional contributor to The Guardian and The Stage. For more information, see his blog at <a href="http://www.finkennedy.co.uk/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.finkennedy.co.uk</a>.

In Battalions: playwright Fin Kennedy on his report on the effects of funding cuts on new theatre writing