Will Wood

Writer Director Producer Videographer Actor

My name is Will J. Wood (he/they) and I'm a young, queer writer-director originally from Suffolk. I use art to explore the depth and wholeness of the real, natural world, often hidden and repressed by the systems we live within, working fluidly across genres and forms, wilfully gliding between truth and fantasy. Since graduating from Cambridge two years ago, my main focus has been developing scripts for stage and short films, as well as my debut novel. I am in talks with venues to workshop my debut full-length play Tobacco and Boys about Derek Jarman's work on Marlowe's Edward II, two gay, mythical artists at the ends of their lives. My short stories and poems have been published in Plates of Meat magazine (London), Notes, TCS and Get Real (all Cambridge) and Nea Magazine (Italy). A short film I wrote and directed last year also won some independent film festival awards, including Honourable Mention at the London International Film Festival. Also at Cambridge I was Head of Drama and Comedy on the student radio station, producing over a dozen radio plays with up-coming writers.

Credits

Theatre
Videographer - 'Abyss', dir. Flynn Crowther (Platform Theatre, London, 1 week, 2023)
Writer, Director, Producer - 'End of the Line' (ADC Theatre, Cambridge, 2019)
Asst. Producer - 'Deathtrap' (ADC Theatre, Cambridge, 2019)
Head of Radio Drama and Comedy (2 years, Cam FM, 2018-2020)

Film
Writer, Director, Producer - 'Fugue' (2022, London Director Awards, London International Film Festival, Ipswich Film)
Writer, Director, Producer - 'New York is No Mother' (2023, New York City Monthly Film Fest)
Writer, Director, Producer - 'The Source of it All' (2023, Scenius, London, more TBC)

Training

Playwriting class with Katherine Soper
A year-long programme in poetry, performance art and creativity with Bhanu Kapil
Directing mentoring from CU ADC
Queer writing scratch nights at Retro Bar and KHP
Poetry and spirituality at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire with Malcolm Guite
Creativity, queerness and feminism workshops at the London Library
Acting and Shakespeare masterclasses with the Marlowe Society with Simon Russell Beale
Acting classes with Sir Timothy Ackroyd
Acting workshops with GoHub / Actors East in Dalston and Stockwell
Singing masterclass with Andrew Kennedy
BFI filmmaking and cinematography summer workshops

Location

London

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Crafts
  • Film - short
  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • New technologies / digital
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Theatre making
  • Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Russian

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