Developing Your Plot Through Questions and Problems with Sophia Chetin-Leuner: Online Masterclass
Venue: Theatre503
Date: 28/05/2026
Type: Literary arts Theatre Workshop
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Every good play is full of problems and questions. The problems can be as simple as "he needs to buy new shoes" or as big as "She hates her life". Often, problems generate questions: what is she going to do about hating her life? Or, the audience can be kept engaged with simpler ones: "what is he hiding?". This workshop will explore how important problems and questions are for strengthening your scene work and can actually be key to helping you plot and develop initial seeds of ideas. We will look at some plays, including opening scenes from Edward Albee and Annie Baker plays, then open the floor if anyone wants to share current work.
Sophia is a writer and teacher from London. Her play THIS MIGHT NOT BE IT was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting (2020). It was on at the Bush Theatre in 2024 and published by Nick Hern Books. It was first developed when Sophia was on the Bush Theatre's Emerging Writers' Group (2018-19).
Sophia received the Dalio Foundation Scholarship to study at NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing MFA (2016-8). Sophia began writing PORN PLAY while there. It was also shortlisted for the Women's Prize and was a finalist for the Verity Bargate Award (2022). It debuted at the Royal Court Upstairs in November 2025 directed by Josie Rourke and starring Ambika Mod.
In 2023, Sophia joined BBC's Writer's Room, where writers were selected from a nationwide open call and Sophia was one of just thirteen chosen from almost 5000 submissions (2022-3). In 2024, Sophia was selected for the BBC's Writers Pilot cohort, a year long scheme partnering writers with production companies for the opportunity to write the first episode of a potential BBC commissioned original drama series or serial.
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