Investigating Characters
Tutors: Mary Kate O’Flanagan
Date: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
Duration: 2 Days
Venue: Dublin tbc
Cost: €150
Course Profile:
Screen Training Ireland is seeking participants for “Investigating Characters”.
This course will provide guidance to writers and creatives on:
- Clarifying a Character’s Primary Motivation
- How to Write Secondary Characters
- Beats of Transformation
- The Gleaming Detail
Mary Kate O’Flanagan is an award-winning screenwriter and story consultant in the European film and television industry. She teaches screenwriting in The UK and The US, across Europe as well as in Ireland for Screen Training Ireland among others.
She has written six feature-length screenplays, five of which have been optioned and supported by funding from Bord Scannain/IFB and a pilot for a television series which won the EATC Prix Europa.
Mary Kate is Ireland’s First Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth, a title she won at The Abbey Theatre in October 2015. She is also The Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth in LA, a title she won in January 2017.
Participant Profile:
This course is aimed at emerging screenwriters, producers and development personnel.
Application Procedure:
Please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie with a current CV by 12:00 on the 16th of April. For further information please email grainne.bennett@screentrainingireland.ie
