Applied Stories

Place-based audio drama with social impact. Digital production company and consultancy founded by Playwright and Producer @finkennedy

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

Applied Stories is available to commission, we make place-based audio drama for your space, wherever it is. Most of our work is co-created with clients. Read about our work for @britishmuseum and @UkNatArchives among others & how to commission your own.
https://t.co/Ks2Gdi8HTx

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

New project!

#TheFarageFiles is a spoof comedy podcast featuring an AI voice clone of @Nigel_Farage 'in conversation' with our AD @finkennedy.

The project aims to raise awareness about the dangers of this technology to the creative industries.

https://t.co/BhO7DbBBmv

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

New Year Sale!

Start 2025 by brushing up on your Drama teaching skills with 10% off Applied Stories' 10-week online Playwrighting for Teachers CPD course, £269 instead of the usual £299.

Quote 'New Year 10% offer' when registering to claim.

https://t.co/o9YKueTqPK

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

Download your own free copy at https://t.co/FxXJyXvNpw

Also hear all seven finalists' audio recordings of their winning entries.

[Mel Pennant @MelPennant]

What can a letter writing contest tell us about girls today? https://t.co/4aCv0AhPNx via @AppliedStories

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

New blog alert!!

Thanks to my brilliant cotutors on this one @sharmilawrites, @YusraWarsama, @MelPennant + Erinn Dhesi

Read all about what we learned about today's young women by holding a letter writing competition for 11-18 year old girls.

#LettersToOurDaughters

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

New blog!!

'What can a letter writing contest tell us about girls today?' by artistic director @finkennedy, as we launch the winners of our #LettersToOurDaughters project for Mulberry Schools Trust.

https://t.co/aeSEnYONPM

[Mel Pennant @MelPennant]

This is such an important initiative. I feel privileged to have played a small part in supporting it.

Congratulations ✨🌟💫to all who made it happen and the super talented students!

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

Very proud of all our finalists performing live today in that packed auditorium! More coverage soon in the Applied Stories newsletter, in the meantime check out audio versions of all 7 finalists at https://t.co/FxXJyXvNpw

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Very proud that @AppliedStories' work is featured in this latest episode of On The Record, the @UkNatArchives podcast, out today!

Being and Not Being is 2 x 25-min dramas, about Swahili and Hindustani during WW2.

Follow the links to hear the plays...

https://t.co/EH51y5RuAR

[Nick Hern Books @NickHernBooks]

Calling all teachers! Interested in playwriting? Award-winning playwright and NHB author @finkennedy is leading a new online playwriting course.

Register by Friday 20 September:
https://t.co/5dBTby8bUm

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Do I know any writers of South Asian, East Asian, African or Caribbean ancestry, with strong links to Leicester?

[Applied Stories @AppliedStories]

Did you know teaching and playwrighting have a lot in common?

Find out more in this new blog post by our artistic director @finkennedy, introducing Applied Stories' first every fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course 👇👇👇

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Why do teachers make such excellent playwrights?

Find out over on my new blog for @AppliedStories, launching our first ever fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course.

https://t.co/mMbqlOf6bb

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

For a limited time, new signups to the course will receive a free copy of Fin's forthcoming new play for young people, Life Raft, published by Nick Hern Books in October 2024!

https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Check me out introducing the course, and find out how to sign up:

https://t.co/7bLhz1ZFrM

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Along the way you'll have developed your understanding of character, action, location, subtext, structure and dialogue. Every video includes advice on applying this learning to generating original creative ideas with or for your own classes.

https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

By the end of the six sessions (12 weeks) you will have written your own original two-hander scene!

https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Playwrighting for Teachers will help you:

- Better support your students devising for GCSE or A-level Drama.
- Analyse classic and contemporary theatre texts in the English curriculum.
- Write short film scripts for Media.
- Help you write the school play!

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Fortnightly sessions give you time to complete the exercises, with a suite of original interactive worksheets looking at Scenarios, Character, Action, Location and more.

https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

The six session course runs from Sept-Dec 2024 in a mixture of live and pre-recorded sessions, all led by me, and underpinned by 20 years' experience in schools and theatres...

https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4

[Fin Kennedy @finkennedy]

Teachers! Brush up on your playwrighting skills for the new term.

Check out @AppliedStories' new fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course, designed to fit your busy schedule, and packed with original creative exercises to use in the classroom.

https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4