Creating Character for Theatre with Cordelia Lynn

How do you create a three-dimensional character? How do you suggest psychological depth or make a character feel real, recogniseable and identifiable? What even is a character? This workshop explores the fundamentals of coming up with Characters.

Participants should have something to write with and on.

About the Facilitator

Cordelia Lynn is an award-winning playwright, librettist and dramaturg whose work has been produced in the UK and abroad. Her works include Lela & Co, Love and Other Acts of Violence, Sea Creatures, and the operas Like Flesh and Houses Slide. Cordelia received the Berwin Lee Award 2020, the Harold Pinter Commission 2017 and was shortlisted for the George Devine Award 2023. Her opera with Sivan Eldar, Like Flesh, won the Fedora Opera Prize 2021. House Slide, her music theatre piece with Laura Bowler, was nominated for an Ivor Award 2023.

About the Company

• Stoke The Embers is a not-for-profit theatre company, championing the creative potential of both emerging and established artists. This workshop is part of the Spring 2026 Creatives Weekend, a mini-festival for creative and personal development. To learn more about Stoke The Embers and keep up to date with their work, find them on Instagram.