Fin Kennedy
            
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              Playwright and Artistic Director of Applied Stories @AppliedStories
              
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              Joined January 2009
            
            
           Teachers! Brush up on your playwrighting skills for the new term. Check out @AppliedStories' new fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course, designed to fit your busy schedule, and packed with original creative exercises to use in the classroom.  https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4 
          
          
            
            appliedstories.co.uk
              Place-based audio drama with social impact
            
                
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             Ooh. Just the best play ever written. In Stone. Next month. @finkennedy excels in this amazing piece of writing  https://t.co/WEciOrzmfN 
          
          
                
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             New project! #TheFarageFiles is a spoof comedy podcast featuring an AI voice clone of @Nigel_Farage 'in conversation' with our AD @finkennedy. The project aims to raise awareness about the dangers of this technology to the creative industries.  https://t.co/BhO7DbBBmv 
          
          
            
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             .@SachaBaronCohen please could you bring back #AliG to do a series about the dangers of #AI called 'AIIIIIII' ? 
          
                
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             What a great start to the year! Meet the first five NHB plays of 2025, a fantastic collection of plays we recently published in January. Learn more about them β along with the rest of our recent publications β on our website:  https://t.co/zQMtGrfZUN 
          
          
                
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             New Year Sale! Start 2025 by brushing up on your Drama teaching skills with 10% off Applied Stories' 10-week online Playwrighting for Teachers CPD course, Β£269 instead of the usual Β£299. Quote 'New Year 10% offer' when registering to claim.  https://t.co/Y6iI3pMvg3 
          
          
                
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             incredibly proud to have been co-published with @finkennedy and the team @NickHernBooks, alongside Fin's brilliant adaptation of Life Raft; writing a set of starter games to build into your own companion piece, games co-designed with @davidfinig & @melo_frances_ β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯ 
           Excited to finally be holding a copy of this, published today by @NickHernBooks! Originally a @BristolOldVic production, this ensemble play for 11-14 year olds includes an appendix of interactive games designed by @tassosstevens Order your copy now!  https://t.co/tYkYsHPVzg 
            
            
                
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             Excited to finally be holding a copy of this, published today by @NickHernBooks! Originally a @BristolOldVic production, this ensemble play for 11-14 year olds includes an appendix of interactive games designed by @tassosstevens Order your copy now!  https://t.co/tYkYsHPVzg 
          
          
                
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             What can a letter writing contest tell us about girls today?  https://t.co/4aCv0AhPNx  via @AppliedStories
          
          
            
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              My daughter Ruby turned 9 last month. I know all parents say it, but it's hard to know where the time went. It seems like only last week she was a mewling, puking babe in arms. (Lovely too, of...
            
                
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             Download your own free copy at  https://t.co/FxXJyXvNpw  Also hear all seven finalists' audio recordings of their winning entries. 
           Last week, our expert panel picked the student entries that will be going into our #GlobalGirlLeading Letters to Our Daughters collection β we canβt wait for everyone to see the final book! 
            
                
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             Our #LetterstoOurDaughters @AppliedStories finalists have just performed their amazing work to a packed #GlobalGirlLeading conference centre β well done everyone! 
          
                
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             New blog!! 'What can a letter writing contest tell us about girls today?' by artistic director @finkennedy, as we launch the winners of our #LettersToOurDaughters project for Mulberry Schools Trust.  https://t.co/aeSEnYONPM 
          
          
            
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              My daughter Ruby turned 9 last month. I know all parents say it, but it's hard to know where the time went. It seems like only last week she was a mewling, puking babe in arms. (Lovely too, of...
            
                
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             New blog alert!! Thanks to my brilliant cotutors on this one @sharmilawrites, @YusraWarsama, @MelPennant + Erinn Dhesi Read all about what we learned about today's young women by holding a letter writing competition for 11-18 year old girls. #LettersToOurDaughters
          
           New blog!! 'What can a letter writing contest tell us about girls today?' by artistic director @finkennedy, as we launch the winners of our #LettersToOurDaughters project for Mulberry Schools Trust.  https://t.co/aeSEnYONPM 
            
          
                
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             Very proud of all our finalists performing live today in that packed auditorium! More coverage soon in the Applied Stories newsletter, in the meantime check out audio versions of all 7 finalists at 
           Our #LetterstoOurDaughters @AppliedStories finalists have just performed their amazing work to a packed #GlobalGirlLeading conference centre β well done everyone! 
            
                
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             Very proud that @AppliedStories' work is featured in this latest episode of On The Record, the @UkNatArchives podcast, out today! Being and Not Being is 2 x 25-min dramas, about Swahili and Hindustani during WW2. Follow the links to hear the plays...  https://t.co/EH51y5RuAR 
          
          
            
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              With recruits from across its empire, Britainβs troops in the Second World War were a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic force. Among those involved were more
            
                
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             Calling all teachers! Interested in playwriting? Award-winning playwright and NHB author @finkennedy is leading a new online playwriting course. Register by Friday 20 September:  https://t.co/5dBTby8bUm 
          
          
            
            appliedstories.co.uk
              Place-based audio drama with social impact
             Teachers! Brush up on your playwrighting skills for the new term. Check out @AppliedStories' new fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course, designed to fit your busy schedule, and packed with original creative exercises to use in the classroom.  https://t.co/wXKEXOn1n4 
            
          
                
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             Do I know any writers of South Asian, East Asian, African or Caribbean ancestry, with strong links to Leicester? 
          
                
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             Did you know teaching and playwrighting have a lot in common? Find out more in this new blog post by our artistic director @finkennedy, introducing Applied Stories' first every fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course πππ 
           Why do teachers make such excellent playwrights? Find out over on my new blog for @AppliedStories, launching our first ever fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course.  https://t.co/mMbqlOf6bb 
            
          
                
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             Why do teachers make such excellent playwrights? Find out over on my new blog for @AppliedStories, launching our first ever fully online Playwrighting for Teachers course.  https://t.co/mMbqlOf6bb 
          
          
                
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