09:00 - 10:00

 A discussion led by Gavin Kostick on ways of bringing your play from first draft to rehearsal script. Drawing on Gavin's experience as Literary Manager with Fishamble: The New Play Company, this is a practical session for writers, dramaturgs, directors, producers and fellow theatre artists as to how to go about getting the most from a new play. 

 Note: This session is one of a choice of sessions running in the same time slot . For more information please refer to the schedule. 

Biography 

 Gavin Kostick is an internationally produced, award-winning playwright. He has written over a dozen plays which have been produced in Dublin, on tour around Ireland, the UK, New York, Philadelphia and Romania. Favourite works include The Ash Fire , The Flesh Addict , The Asylum Ball , Forked , The Medusa , An Image for the Rose Parts 1, 2 and 3 . He has written a number of works for The Gaiety School of Acting, the latest being Olive Skin, Blood Mouth. 

 He is currently working on new plays for Fishamble: The New Play Company, Kabosh, and Whiplash, and an opera with composer Raymond Deane for RTÉ lyric fm. 

 Gavin is Literary Manager for Fishamble. He works with new writers for theatre through innovative projects such as the award-winning Whereabouts, script development, readings and a variety of courses. Over 80 plays have been produced by writers completing courses with Fishamble. 

 For Dublin Fringe Festival 2007, his performance as Charlie Marlow in the workshop production of Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ Complete received the Spirit of the Fringe award and went on to a sell-out run as part of Reviewed at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2008. It will next be performed at the South Bank as part of the London Festival of Literature.