Story Studios Australia’s one off events focus on a variety of aspects of writing, community, sharing and storytelling and are often led by special guests and teachers
A chance to learn from and have in-person conversations with successful authors, screenwriters and other creative industry professionals; one-off events are conversational, insightful and lots of fun.
Comedy Writing: The Art of the Joke
Story Studios Australia is proud to announce two upcoming events dedicated to the craft of comedy writing.
Taught by gainfully employed TV comedy writers Kit Richards and Alistair Baldwin, this session on May 28th will guide writers through the art of structuring the perfect joke in a wide range of formulas, as well as contextualising them in narrative comedy, sketch and “late night” topical satire.
The following week’s session (TICKETED SEPARATELY), will delve into comedic archetypes and the ways both sitcoms and sketch comedy rely on character conflict to generate story.
Come along to one session, or both and let the hilarity ensue!
Alistair Baldwin is a TV writer, comedian, director and playwright. He has written for Erotic Stories, The Weekly, Hard Quiz and Get Krack!n. Alistair was also a director on the AACTA Award winning web series Latecomers, and his first play Telethon Kid premiered at Malthouse Theatre in 2023.
Kit Richards is a Melbourne based musician and comedian whose TV credits include Hard Quiz, The 1% Club and Get Krack!n’. Her first solo comedy hour “Wool! A History of Australia’s Wool Industry: The Musical” was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Cabaret Writing and her second solo show “Scandal! A Reflection on Essendon’s Doping Saga: The Musical?” won the 2020/2021 Moosehead Award. She has subsequently performed two additional comedy hours and has taught comedy writing at the VCA.
Comedy Writing: Creating Comic Characters
Story Studios Australia is proud to announce two upcoming events dedicated to the craft of comedy writing.
Taught by gainfully employed TV comedy writers Kit Richards and Alistair Baldwin, this session on June 4th will delve into comedic character creation, breaking down comedic archetypes and the ways both sitcoms and sketch comedy rely on character conflict to generate story.
The previous week’s session (TICKETED SEPARATELY), will guide writers through the art of structuring the perfect joke in a wide range of formulas, as well as contextualising them in narrative comedy, sketch and “late night” topical satire.
Come along to one session, or both and let the hilarity ensue!
Alistair Baldwin is a TV writer, comedian, director and playwright. He has written for Erotic Stories, The Weekly, Hard Quiz and Get Krack!n. Alistair was also a director on the AACTA Award winning web series Latecomers, and his first play Telethon Kid premiered at Malthouse Theatre in 2023.
Kit Richards is a Melbourne based musician and comedian whose TV credits include Hard Quiz, The 1% Club and Get Krack!n’. Her first solo comedy hour “Wool! A History of Australia’s Wool Industry: The Musical” was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Cabaret Writing and her second solo show “Scandal! A Reflection on Essendon’s Doping Saga: The Musical?” won the 2020/2021 Moosehead Award. She has subsequently performed two additional comedy hours and has taught comedy writing at the VCA.
Unlock Your Creative Potential
Harness new strategies to level-up your creativity and achieve your writing goals!
Do you want to improve your creative writing habits? Learn proven methods to help you treat the craft of writing like a professional? Then this is the class for you!
After attending this special, one-night event, you will understand exactly the right steps that will take your writing journey to the next level, and unlock your creative potential.
Over the course of the evening, lead by prolific children’s writer Adam Bigum (Good Game Spawn Point, Fizzy and Suds) you will learn proven strategies on how to:
Utilise your unconscious mind as a creative tool;
Design a bespoke system of productivity to suit you as an individual;
Form strong creative habits;
Overcome various mental roadblocks;
and take advantage of neurological mechanisms to best support the creative mind.
Held at the beautiful Story Studios Australia in Carlton, you will leave this session with more confidence and more knowledge, newly armed with an array of simple techniques that will get your next project finished and your writing career moving.
Adam Bigum is an experienced television writer and producer with a prolific career spanning over 15 years. In the last four years alone, he has script-doctored 14 episodes of ABC pre-school series, “Fizzy and Suds”, wrote and produced all 10 episodes of ABC series “Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse” and was the head writer on all 19 episodes of ABC series “Definitely Not News.” Adam is Currently writing 10 episodes of a new unannounced ABC series and has a VicScreen funded kid’s TV series currently in development.
Past Events:
Root and Branch – An introduction to writing multistrand narratives with Scott Edgar
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Writing for Animation with Nick Watson
Grace Notes – Karen Comer’s book launch
The Storyteller’s Handbook Launch with Elise Hurst
