Writing Contemporary Ireland workshop with Mark O'Halloran and Madani Younis

Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, in partnership with Filmbase are hosting

A Continuing Professional Development Workshop:
Writing Contemporary Ireland

Date: 11 March 2009

Venue: Filmbase

The workshop is aimed at emerging and established writers, theatre makers and film makers who are interested in exploring approaches to representing culturally diverse communities and creating new work that reflects the diversity of contemporary Ireland.

The workshop is co-hosted by actor, writer and film maker Mark O’Halloran, and writer, theatre and film maker Madani Younis.

Please note places are limited. Please ensure booking is made by Friday March 6th to ensure a place. The cost for the workshop is 40.00 Euros. To reserve a place please contact events@filmbase.ie at Filmbase. Please put Writing Contemporary
Ireland in the subject line of the email.

The workshop will take place at Filmbase, Curved Street Building, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. The workshop will commence at 10.00 am and run until 3.00pm. There will be a lunch break from 12 -1.15pm.

As part of Create’s organisational remit to support continuing professional development for artists working collaboratively with communities of place or interest, Create schedules a number of Continuing Professional Development workshops annually. www.create-ireland.ie

Filmbase provides a range of training courses from scriptwriting to producing and directing to camera/lighting. The length of these courses varies from one day or weekend courses to courses run over 8 to 10 weeks. www.filmbase.ie
TUTORS
Mark O'Halloran is an Irish scriptwriter and actor. He is a native of
Ennis, County Clare. He has written various award-winning screenplays for films Adam and Paul (in which he co-starred) and Garage and the RTE mini-series Prosperity.
Awards
2005: Gijón International Film Festival Award for Best Actor - Adam & Paul
2006: Evening Standard British Award for Best Screenplay - Adam & Paul
2008: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script for Film - Garage
2008: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script for Television - Prosperity
2008: Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Television Script - Prosperity

Madani Younis was appointed in 2002 as the Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company's Asian Theatre School, Bradford. Madani has directed four productions for the company. Streets of Rage (2002), a response to the Bradford riots of 2001, achieved a sell-out run in both Bradford and Leeds. Silent Cry (2003/ 2004) dealt with the hard hitting issue of deaths in police custody, and was toured both regionally and nationally. Freeworld (2004), an international collaboration with the Studio Theatre Damascus, Syria, which explored contemporary notions of terror and terrorism. Caravan (2005) a collaboration with the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, opened theatre's autumn season. In the spring 2005 Madani worked with Red Ladder Theatre Company on its devised show Free Falling, which toured nationally.

In the autumn of 2005 Madani Younis wrote A Waiting Room for Journeying Souls, (Directed by Geraldine Conner) an original piece of musical theatre to open the brand new Peepuls Centre in Leicester. As the director of the Asian Theatre School, Madani strives to offer and empower young British Asian actors with an opportunity to learn their craft as performers, and artists.
Madani Younis was South Bank Show Award Winner 2006; GG2 Award Winner 2006; is a Board Member of Audiences Yorkshire; and is supporting the work of ACE YPPT International Conference planned for July 2008. He has an MPhil in Playwriting, University of Birmingham, where he studied with April De Angelis, David Edgar and Richard Pinner.
His short film debut ELLABELLAPUMPANELLA was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 and he is also working closely with television production companies in developing new work for screen.