Teatru Malta and Unifaun Theatre are giving the opportunity to meet British playwright Brad Birch.
Birch is the writer in residence at the award-winning Welsh company Undeb Theatre and is a member of Theatre503’s writers. Over the past five years, Birch has had work produced by Theatre Powys, Sherman Cymru, Theatre503, Dirty Protest, the Royal Court, the Arcola and the Lyric in the UK.
He is a graduate of the Royal Court’s Young Writers’ Programme and was a member of Sherman Cymru’s New Writers’ and Advanced Writers’ groups in 2010. He is currently writing his first novel.
The playwright has led many workshops with young people in a directing and writing capacity. He has also been involved in community accessible arts projects run and facilitated by local government-funded organisations and is a regular speaker at arts events in Mid Wales. He has also spoken at Pimlico Academy in London on the importance of theatre today, young people’s roles in theatre and the opportunities the arts provide for young people. He is currently studying for a degree in politics, philosophy and economics at the Open University, UK.
His play, Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall, was published in 2013, while Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated features in Contemporary Welsh Plays and was published in 2015.
The ‘meet and greet’ will take place tomorrow at Inspirations Cafeteria, St James Cavalier, Valletta, at 8pm. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page.