Lisa Carroll Playwright and Script Consultant

25/11/2025

Very proud to have been awarded DYCP funding from Arts Council England to develop my craft across this year 🌟 It's been a magical & enriching journey 🤓 I feel clearer in my voice, mission and craft and more inspired than ever to MAKE BRILLIANT THINGS with AWESOME PEOPLE ❤️

The funding was to develop my playwriting by building skills through complementary practices like poetry and clowning, along with mentorship, writing time, workshops, artists dates and more.

A week at studying poetry through incantations, spells and blessings with the extremely awesome and witchy 💅🏻 Helen Ivory was particularly pivotal. As was the unhinged gift shop at Stonehenge as part of one of my 'dates' to fill the well of images and ideas. Tapping into my weirdness with made me want to pack it all in and move to France to go to clown school 🤡🤡🤡

I can already see a huge difference in my writing & in my creative practice more broadly. I'd been a couple of years recovering from horrendous burnout, trying to get my practice back to a place that feels nurturing and alive, rather than pressured and fearful. Pulling the focus away from outcome and 'career' towards process and artistry.

Rick Rubin puts it best: "Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not. It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.” You are either living as a monk or you’re not. We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world."

All that said... I'm looking forward to stepping into 2026 more boldly and armed with loads of KNOWLEDGE! UK & Irish theatre artists looking for creative consultancy and collaboration on your next project get in touch! 📠

14/10/2025

The Never Miss A Monday writing community zoom has been going strong since September 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 & it's not too late to come along! 👀 (You don't have to come to every single one!)
If you're looking for community, accountability and to move the dial on your creative project, join us on Mondays at 7pm! 📠🖌📝

Join our weekly Zoom writing session for focus, accountability, and community.

01/09/2025

🍂The air has that autumnal feeling and we are not missing a Monday!🍁 Today's the day!
🌾 Join us! 🌾
🍄 1.5 hours every Monday eve to move the dial on your creative project 🍄
🌟Check in ~ quiet project time ~ debrief🌟
💫 Community & accountability 🤩

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/never-miss-a-monday-weekly-zoom-sessions-for-writers-creatives-tickets-1296086602919

Join our weekly Zoom writing session for focus, accountability, and community.

11/08/2025

What is NEVER MISS A MONDAY?

✏️ If you thrive on body doubling, community and accountability, you need WRITING ZOOMS. They have completely changed my playwriting practice and now I'm hoping they'll help you too.

✏️ Never Miss A Monday is a commitment to yourself and your writing - a weekly zoom where you check in, share intentions, write for an hour, then debrief with a small likeminded community.

✏️ Last year we developed a really lovely community, had fab chats about art or knots in our projects, and got loads done.

➡️ We'll be going every Monday from September to Christmas, moving the dial on our creative projects and finishing the year strong!

Join us! 🤝
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1296086602919

Join our weekly Zoom writing session for focus, accountability, and community.

04/08/2025

🚨 NEVER MISS A MONDAY IS BACK! 🚨

Get your head back in the game from September - ring fence your writing time every Monday night with writing Zooms!!!

Bonus (maybe some kind of prize?) if you manage to make EVERY SESSION til Christmas!!!

Join us:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1296086602919

Join our weekly Zoom writing session for focus, accountability, and community.

25/07/2025

Just back from a dreamy writing day in the middle of nowhere 😍 Nothing beats nature for creative inspiration 🎭✍️

23/07/2025

Whatever you repeat you get good at.

Whatever you practice you get good at.

Just by showing up.

It's the law of doing things! Doesn't even matter the quality of the practice or bad days. Just keep dragging your ass to the page 😆

You can't *not* get better 💫

21/07/2025

Are you writing to express or to impress?

18/07/2025

In case you needed a reminder today 👇🏻

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

― Franz Kafka

17/07/2025

We just got a lovely review for MAKING YOUR SOLO SHOW 😍

'Invaluable... A comprehensive, no-nonsense guide written by two experienced theatre makers with extensive expertise... What sets this guide apart from others is its engaging, conversational style... A wealth of practical exercises encourages creativity, helping performers explore content and characterisation to craft a well-structured, compelling show that captivates audiences... An essential toolkit for anyone preparing to create their own show!'

Word Matters (Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech & Drama)

Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide; A clear, accessible guide to creating and putting on a solo show, packed with inspiring, practical advice for writers, actors, directors and anyone who wants to know how solo shows are actually made.

16/07/2025

It's no coincidence that we use terms like magical, spellbinding, awe and rapture when we're talking about art 🪄✨

27/03/2025

So looking forward to heading to Norwich Theatre this weekend to teach this Writing For Performance masterclass for the RSC! 🤩
Norwich playwrights come say hello!!!

This session is part of 'Shakespeare Saturdays' – free introductory masterclasses, led by Royal Shakespeare Company practitioners, open to everyone over 18.