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🎙 INTERVIEW [FREE]: From Stage & Screen to the Page: In Conversation with Dramatist & Award-Winning YA Novelist Moira Buffini
​** This is a LIVE interview with Moira Buffini about the craft of writing and reality of building a writing career. Attendees will be sent a recording after the interview. **
​What does it take to tell a story that resonates across stage, screen, and page? How does a writer move between the immediacy of performance and the intimacy of fiction? And what can dramatists teach us about crafting unforgettable characters?
​Moira Buffini is one of the UK’s leading scriptwriters, celebrated for her sharp, inventive storytelling across film, theatre, and television. Her credits include The Dig (BAFTA-nominated), Jane Eyre, Tamara Drewe, Dinner, Handbagged, and the hit series Harlots. Most recently, she turned her attention to fiction, and her YA debut novel Songlight—the first in The Torch Trilogy—won the 2025 YA Book Prize and received wide critical acclaim. Torchfire, the second book in the series, is out now.
​Join us for a conversation with Moira about the art of writing across mediums, the creative instincts that drive her work, and how she brings a dramatist’s perspective to the world of young adult fiction.
​We’ll explore:
​How to think like a dramatist when writing prose
​What makes a YA story emotionally true and resonant
​Moira’s path from playwright to screenwriter to novelist
​Moving between genres, audiences, and forms of storytelling
​Insights into breaking into the screen industry
​Balancing craft, career, and creative freedom
​About Moira Buffini
​Moira Buffini is an Olivier Award–winning UK playwright and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, writing many plays for the National Theatre and the West End. Films include Tamara Drewe, Jane Eyre, Byzantium, and The Dig. She cocreated and was showrunner of Hulu's Harlots. Songlight is her debut novel. She lives in London.
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