Writing From Self With Travis Alabanza: Online Masterclass
Venue: Theatre503
Date: 13/05/2026
Type: Literary arts Theatre Workshop
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Travis Alabanza's debut show BURGERZ toured internationally for 5 years. It started from a personal incident, yet using theatre moved beyond the personal. This workshop will look at using autobiography as a starting point, but not the end. How to play, change, alter, archive and interrogate the personal in your writing. The objective of this session is to be able to create an exciting and engaging creative writing from personal experience!
Wednesday 13 May 7pm-9pm (GMT)
Maximum class sizes are 16.
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Travis Alabanza
Travis is a writer, performer and theatre maker from Bristol.
For stage, Travis wrote and performed in their debut show Burgerz which won the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sold out at Southbank Centre and Traverse Theatre and toured internationally. It was also voted one of The Guardian Readers Top Shows of The Year. The text is published by Oberon Books. Their play Overflow, which premiered at and streamed from The Bush, was met with critical acclaim including numerous four-star reviews and was shortlisted
for the George Devine Award. Their latest theatre commission, Sound of the Underground, premiered as part of the Royal Court's new season in 2023 to critical acclaim. Travis currently has a new show for stage in development with the Southbank Centre and Hackney Showrooms, and their project PUSH THE BUTTON is in development with Green Door Theatre in Australia. For screen, Travis is developing projects with Lookout Point and See Saw.
Travis' debut book None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary was published in 2022 by Canongate and in the US by Feminist Press in 2023. It won the Jhalak Literary Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and was listed in TIME Magazine's 100 books of 2023.
Travis' work has also appeared on BBC Front Row, The Verb and in 2019 they hosted their first radio documentary 'Going to The Gay Bar' for BBC Radio Four.
Their work has also earned them a place on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list 2021, the Dazed100 list and in 2023 as an Evening Standard's future stars of stage and screen.
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