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What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?): I'm fascinated by language: what it means, how it sounds and the effects it has on us, emotionally and intellectually. I enjoy the thrill of live theatre, and especially of hearing new work brought to life by my brilliant actor and director friends in Actors Writers London.

My biggest project at the moment is self-publishing my book: Language with Altitude. This is a teaching primer aimed at helping writers to exploit the richness and power of the English Language. There's a link to my website further down this page, or just search on Google for "language with altitude".

My Quick CV: My websites will tell you more about me than I could say here.

Briefly, however, I started teaching business report writing skills about twenty years ago. Also in the late 1980s, I began to write plays, though I didn't take this too seriously until about ten years ago.

Shortly before the Millennium, I began to focus on teaching creative writing skills. This work has caused me to question my approach to writing and to make many interesting new discoveries about writing technique.

The first thing that inspired me in theatre...: I was particularly inspired by the opening of London's new National Theatre in the 1970s, when I was in my early twenties.

My favourite theatre something is...: Actors & Writers London, a great place for meeting fantastic people and working with them.

The thing that annoys me about our industry...: I am very much saddened by the way theatre is being undermined by inferior on-demand media: television and video

My website: http://www.languagewithaltitude.com

Another website I'd like to plug: http://www.actorsandwriters.org

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Language with Altitude

An inspirational new approach to creativity and persuasive writing:

languagewithaltitude.com

Posted on September 21, 2007 at 2:25pm —

Actors and Writers London (AWL) performs rehearsed readings of new work, professionally directed and acted, on alternate Mondays in Hammersmith. AWL is a very friendly group, with (approximately) 90 actors, 70 writers and 20 directors. Our meetings attract about 60 people on average, and there is plenty of opportunity for participation in our chaired, end-of-reading discussion and in the inexpensive bar just across the landing. Full… Continue

Posted on April 13, 2007 at 10:05am —

Play Readings: Hammersmith: 2nd April at 7.30 p.m.

Come to Actors & Writers London on Monday 2nd April. It's competition night: eight (pre-selected) short plays on the themes of Climate Change and/or The Cost of Living. AWL is a very friendly group. You can be sure of a welcome and a chance to meet lots of interesting people, including many friends from britishtheatre.com.

See actorsandwriters.org for full details.

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Posted on March 29, 2007 at 9:01am —

On-Line Writing Tutorials

See w4r.co.uk for six on-line writing tutorials with a playing time of one hour, completely free of charge. The tutorials offer radio writing techniques, but there are interesting ideas for theatre writers too, concerning the creative process, subtext, plot and characterisation.

Posted on March 21, 2007 at 1:37pm —

Actors and Writers London

Posted on March 15, 2007 at 11:09am —

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At 12:07pm on December 8, 2007, Andrew Syers said…: Hi, how're you doing? I'm currently organising auditions for my play at Baron's Court Theatre. I'll see you at the AWL meeting this Monday!

All the Best

Andrew

At 8:17pm on July 4, 2007, David Hampshire said…: Hi Paddy, I've joined BT now. Would you like to be my friend pls?

At 10:32am on July 4, 2007, Catherine Potter said…: Hello!
Thank you for adding me.
I really enjoyed monday night's play and am looking forward to my first competition night next time.
Hope you are well
xxx

At 11:28pm on June 20, 2007, Barbara Joslyn said…: Hi Paddy and thanks for the friend addition. Always intriguing to see what mutual friends we have - even outside the AWL membership :-)

Last AWL readings made great contrasts (black slave trade history .v. auntie Emily's escape on the QEII :-) Very interesting evening. Thank you.

b.x

At 10:47am on June 6, 2007, Diana Walker said…: Hi Paddy
I like the sound of Proseverse and AWL, will check out your websites for more info!

At 3:27pm on June 4, 2007, Real Circumstance said…: Thanks for the add! We look forward to being kept posted on AWL.

At 3:26pm on May 9, 2007, Peter Cowlam said…: Thanks for the invite. It's great to meet you.

At 9:13pm on April 28, 2007, Nadia Ostacchini said…: Paddy, what can I say? You are simply FAB! A totally happy & jolly clever person! AWL would never be the same without you! See you at the group tomorrow & thanx for tellin` me bout British Theatre! nadia x

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