New Courses with Mary Kate O Flanagan for Winter 2022
Mary Kate O Flanagan, who helps shape stories by emerging and established screenwriters, is offering three new courses for writers this Winter.
Idea to Outline
A 7-week online programme for screenwriters.
Tuesdays 19:30-21:30 (Irish Time) commencing October 25th 2022
This course also includes one individual consultation session with the tutor (1 x 120 minute meeting by arrangement).
Further information here.
Making A Scene
A 7-week online programme in the art of crafting a scene.
Wednesdays 19:30-21:30 (Irish Time) commencing October 26th 2022
This course also includes one individual consultation session with the tutor (1 x 120 minute meeting by arrangement).
Further information here.
Creativity and Confidence
A Programme to Transform Your Creative Practice
Sunday Evenings
19:30 – 21:30
Commencing October 30th 2022
Running for Eight Weeks till December 11th 2022.
Tutors: Rachel O Flanagan and Mary Kate O Flanagan
Further information here.
Mary Kate trained in the craft of screenwriting with the professors of screenwriting at The University of Southern California. She has worked as a tutor alongside her former professors for the last ten years. She has continued to be mentored by them, in particular David Howard, author of The Tools of Screenwriting. She is a guest tutor at the Czech Film School FAMU and The National Film School in Ireland as well as a lead tutor on pan-European programmes.
In the last year she has given intensive workshops and lectures on screenwriting in Prague, London, Cologne, Pilzen, Valletta as well as Dublin, Cork and Galway. She has also given workshops in Africa. She specialises in giving in-depth training to aspiring screenwriters from diverse backgrounds.
Mary Kate is a working writer who has written six feature-length screenplays, all of which have been funded by The Irish Film Board and subsequently optioned, currently in development. She holds an MA in Screenwriting, has won pan-European awards for her screenwriting, is a published short story writer and Ireland’s Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth. Mary Kate is also a Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth in LA. You can hear her story here: themoth.org/stories/carry-him-shoulder-high