Ben Musgrave
@ben-musgrave.bsky.social
Playwright, Lecturer in Scriptwriting, UEA.
www.ben-musgrave.co.uk
www.ben-musgrave.co.uk
Fantastic news, @marthaloader.bsky.social The Town is such a brilliant play (and best wishes to the everyone else on the shortlist too).
Four shortlisted plays have been announced for this year's #GeorgeDevineAward 2025 for new writing
🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/323871/news/...
Bad Seed by #AsmaraGabrielle; Citizens of Umi by #YasminJoseph; The Town by #MarthaLoader; and The Knot by #IslavanTricht
#WestEndTheatre #LondonTheatre
🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/323871/news/...
Bad Seed by #AsmaraGabrielle; Citizens of Umi by #YasminJoseph; The Town by #MarthaLoader; and The Knot by #IslavanTricht
#WestEndTheatre #LondonTheatre
George Devine Award 2025 shortlist of playwrights announced | West End Theatre
Four shortlisted plays have been announced for this year's George Devine Award 2025.
www.westendtheatre.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fantastic news, @marthaloader.bsky.social The Town is such a brilliant play (and best wishes to the everyone else on the shortlist too).
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Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
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Still a few more hours to go!
My book’s the kindle daily deal (UK only) for £1.99 today! If you’ve already bought it THANK YOU. And please leave a review if you can - it helps other readers find it. www.amazon.co.uk/Chopping-Oni...
Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture
Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture eBook : Ellis, Samantha: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Still a few more hours to go!
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🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective!
We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
@bcltuea.bsky.social.
We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
@bcltuea.bsky.social.
June 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective!
We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
@bcltuea.bsky.social.
We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
@bcltuea.bsky.social.
Come and see the work in development of our amazing UEA Scriptwriters next week at the Garage in Norwich: ueascriptwritingma.substack.com
UEA Scriptwriting MA public workshop 2025 | Substack
A two-day programme showcasing work from the 2025 graduates of the Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) MA at the University of East Anglia on 17/18 June at the Garage, Norwich. Click to read UEA Scriptwr...
ueascriptwritingma.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Come and see the work in development of our amazing UEA Scriptwriters next week at the Garage in Norwich: ueascriptwritingma.substack.com
Come and work with us at UEA
An exciting opportunity has opened up at the University of East Anglia for someone to join us as Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies, helping us to deliver the new, future facing MA Creative Writing.
Details:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Details:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies(ATS1307) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies(ATS1307) vacancy in University of East Anglia.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Literatur...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Come and work with us at UEA
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I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
May 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
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A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
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Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!
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Loved writing this for the Guardian about trying to pass on my Iraqi Jewish food heritage to my son. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?
Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi J...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Loved writing this for the Guardian about trying to pass on my Iraqi Jewish food heritage to my son. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
Great evening! Can't wait to read it Samantha!
I had such a lovely evening launching Chopping Onions on my Heart.
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Great evening! Can't wait to read it Samantha!
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Last night at the Audio Drama Awards, the BBC announced a 90-min monthly play slot on Radio 4
It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama
Thanks to our members who joined the campaign
Our response 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...
It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama
Thanks to our members who joined the campaign
Our response 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...
BBC announces monthly 90-minute play slot on Radio 4, following campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The BBC is launching a monthly 90-minute play slot starting later in the spring on BBC Radio 4, which will focus on new audio dramas and original adaptations of classic …
writersguild.org.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Last night at the Audio Drama Awards, the BBC announced a 90-min monthly play slot on Radio 4
It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama
Thanks to our members who joined the campaign
Our response 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...
It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama
Thanks to our members who joined the campaign
Our response 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...
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📣UEA UCU Day of Action: Join us from 8am outside AHB on Weds 26th.
🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy.
🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students.
🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA.
✊Join us. #SaveUEA
🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy.
🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students.
🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA.
✊Join us. #SaveUEA
March 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
📣UEA UCU Day of Action: Join us from 8am outside AHB on Weds 26th.
🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy.
🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students.
🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA.
✊Join us. #SaveUEA
🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy.
🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students.
🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA.
✊Join us. #SaveUEA
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Really love this weeks Start The Week with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @samanthaellis.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah, on food, soil, migration, and memory
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Start the Week - Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance - BBC Sounds
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Samantha Ellis and Jason Allen-Paisant with Shahidha Bari.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Really love this weeks Start The Week with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @samanthaellis.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah, on food, soil, migration, and memory
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Clare has been a force of nature in the East and she will be sorely missed around here. I couldn't be more grateful to her for her support and friendship over the past few years. She and the whole @hightidetheatre.bsky.social team have been a dream to work with. The NT are lucky to have her!
Clare Slater will depart HighTide after just under three years leading the east of England new writing company 👇
Clare Slater steps down as HighTide boss for National Theatre role
Clare Slater will depart HighTide after just under three years leading the east of England new writing company
www.thestage.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Clare has been a force of nature in the East and she will be sorely missed around here. I couldn't be more grateful to her for her support and friendship over the past few years. She and the whole @hightidetheatre.bsky.social team have been a dream to work with. The NT are lucky to have her!
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An important piece in today’s Observer from Katie Hims on why cuts to audio drama are so damaging - to writers, audiences and the wider cultural ecosystem in the UK
We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent
Hundreds of hours of original plays have been cut from the corporation’s programming in recent years. If the trend continues, a valuable training ground for writers will be lost
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
An important piece in today’s Observer from Katie Hims on why cuts to audio drama are so damaging - to writers, audiences and the wider cultural ecosystem in the UK
We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Sickening and wicked provocation. Normalizing ethnic cleansing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit
President’s plan, which critics said was ‘ethnic cleansing by another name’, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Sickening and wicked provocation. Normalizing ethnic cleansing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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The Geneva Convention (which the US has ratified) forbids the permanent and forcible removal of citizens from their homes.
February 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The Geneva Convention (which the US has ratified) forbids the permanent and forcible removal of citizens from their homes.
And Komola Collective's beautiful production and tour of my play INDIGO GIANT:
www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.
www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.
January 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
And Komola Collective's beautiful production and tour of my play INDIGO GIANT:
www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.
www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.
Some things from 2024... A wonderful R&D working on my @artscouncilengland.bsky.social- funded adaptation of LP Hartley's exquisite THE GO-BETWEEN with Eastern Angles, Norwich Theatre Royal, St George's Great Yarmouth and @karengoddard.bsky.social norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/wor...
Work-in-Progress: The Go Between | Norwich Theatre
Join us in Stage Two as we support the development of new work by local artists, and help shape the theatre of tomorrow.
norwichtheatre.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Some things from 2024... A wonderful R&D working on my @artscouncilengland.bsky.social- funded adaptation of LP Hartley's exquisite THE GO-BETWEEN with Eastern Angles, Norwich Theatre Royal, St George's Great Yarmouth and @karengoddard.bsky.social norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/wor...
Dipping my toe in the BlueSky... Hello.
January 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Dipping my toe in the BlueSky... Hello.