Cressida Peever
When working as a dramaturg I see my role as enabling a writer or company to discover what they want their play to ask its audience, and to enable it to do so truthfully, compellingly and economically. For me, this means a bespoke relationship that is led by your project and your vision for it.
I become involved with projects at all stages, from the kernel of an idea, to plays that have already had a performance and need strengthening ahead of a further run. I am particularly interested in working on projects with a focus on gender, or with voices that we have not traditionally heard on our stages.
Selected dramaturgy & script coverage
2020 – Present, Course Teacher, Fish Publishing Online Playwriting Course
2021 – Present, Reader & Critic, Shore Scripts
2021 – Present, Reader & Critic, Nostos Screenwriting Retreat
2020 – 2021, Reader, Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting (ETPEP) Award
2020, Teacher: Playwriting Structure, Durham University Student Theatre
2019, Dramaturg, A Gig for Ghosts by Fran Bushe
2019, Resident Dramaturg, Maiden Speech Festival, Tristan Bates Theatre
2019, Judge, VAULT Festival 2019
2019 – Present, Reader & Critic, Fish Publishing
2017 – 2019, Judge, National Theatre New Views Competition
2018 – 2020, Literary Team, The Finborough Theatre