What is… REPwrite is a digital resource for the teaching of playwriting in educational and non-educational contexts and it contains an interactive playwriting zone that allows multiple writers to develop plays together from anywhere in the world. An interactive resource for the teaching of and development of playwriting

STRUCTURE Resource Area Blog Area Playwriting Area REPwrite is divided into three sections… Playwriting Area

A resource area including guidance and advice from professional writers.

A blogging area where writers can continue to develop their ideas and responses to the resource material and the play in development.

The interactive playwriting zone that allows multiple writers to collaborate on writing a play together from anywhere in the world with space for the role of the dramaturg to engage with the process as it happens.

THE TEACHING OF PLAYWRITING Primary Secondary Higher Education REPwrite has been tested in multiple learning environments.

Primary Hawston Primary School in South Africa. Students collaborated with Robin Hood Primary in the UK.

Secondary Kelly High School in Chicago and St Albans Academy in Birmingham collaborated in using playwriting to help the teaching of English As An Additional language

Higher Education Birmingham City University used REPwrite to facilitate group work. The system was used in a Multiculturalism module using the play Mustafa by Naylah Ahmed (pictured) and an adaptation module - to a whole year group of over 100 students.

Professional Collaboration Four Cities Four Stories is a professional collaboration between playwrights in four European cities. REPwrite provides an ideal platform for a fruitful collaboration on large scale multilingual projects such as these.