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Freddie Machin
playwright, screenwriter, educator

Freddie a playwright, screenwriter and educator. He writes drama with a social conscience and sense of humour, which often revolves around taut, disrupted family dynamics.
His first stageplay, Chicken, was produced at Southwark Playhouse in 2011. He subsequently adapted it to feature film and the movie got its UK cinema release in May 2016. Mark Kermode included it in his best films of that year for the Guardian newspaper and it is now available on MUBI.com.
He has written a number of plays for UK drama schools including The Real Estate, which is published with Nick Hern Books and has been produced more than a dozen times in schools, colleges and universities.
He is an associate artist with Kristine Landon-Smith and associates. He creates and directs headphone verbatim productions in a range of contexts with both actors and non-actors. Headphone verbatim forms the basis of his academic research in his role as Lecturer in Screenwriting at Keele University, where he is designing and developing a number of headphone based projects.
Freddie has taught, directed and written for a number of FDS accredited drama schools including LAMDA, LIPA, Central School of Speech and Drama, Manchester School of Theatre, Drama Studio London, and Italia Conti where he was resident playwright for six years.
He is regularly engaged as a writing tutor on Arvon's residential writing retreats in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Devon. As a writer in residence for First Story he has lead projects in schools and curated and edited two anthologies written by young writers.
Freddie created the City Academy short story competition and chaired the judging panel in 2020 and 2021.
He continues to be a creative practitioner at Tender, facilitating workshops for young people around consent and delivering staff and teacher training on issues including domestic violence and misogyny.
He has been part of invitational writing groups at the The Orange Tree Theatre, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Criterion Theatre New Writing, The Space, and Theatre Centre.
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