Enough Queer Trauma! Online Workshop with Jonathan Hughes
Are you interested in creating rich, nuanced characters in your next project? Join WGI for a very special online workshop on Thursday, 24th October at 11:30pm – 1pm, where we will challenge the cliches of queer representation.
In this workshop, screenwriter and playwright Jonathan Hughes will give an insight into his own background and his journey into the industry. He will then take us on an entertaining and enlightening history lesson concerning queer representation on screen before offering an insight into his own views on talking narratives for stage and screen and why embracing comedy could be the key to unlocking your story.
This workshop is aimed at emerging queer writers and allies as well as any writer creating queer themed work who wishes to broaden their understanding of queer representation on screen.
Register your place here.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89736526141
The WGI would like to encourage members who belong to any group which may be underrepresented within society (for example on the grounds of ethnicity, disability, religion, socioeconomic status or any other factors), to participate in this event.
Jonathan Hughes:
Jonathan Hughes is a queer screenwriter and director based in Limerick City, Ireland. Jonathan’s distinctive voice and unique point of view has translated into surreal comedy projects for stage and screen that have strong universal appeal and has thus far seen his work receive funding from the likes of Screen Ireland, the Arts Council, RTE, Ardán, Filmbase and the BAI among others. His TV and feature writing work has seen him longlisted for the BBC Studios Writers’ Academy, and shortlisted for both the 4Screenwriting scheme and the
RTE/Screen Ireland Storyland initiative. In 2023, Jonathan was selected for the National Talent Academy Screenwriting mentorship scheme where he developed his queer horror TV series PADDY’S DAY. And in 2024, Jonathan was selected as part of Screen Ireland’s Spotlight scheme where he adapted his short play FÉIS MOMS into a queer comedy feature about gay dads, Irish dancing and Satanism.