STF Spark Series: Creative Writing with Karen Davitt

Join theatre and film actor, director and writer, Karen Davitt, in two Spark Sessions on Creative Writing! 

Whether you’re a seasoned writer, or a newbie, writing creatively under pressure can be overwhelming. It can be difficult to come up with ideas that we love (or sometimes come up with ideas at all!). 

Over two Spark Sessions, Karen will guide you through comprehensive exercises and activities designed to ignite that writing spark, no matter if it’s a play, a poem, prose, or something else. 

Creative Writing Part 1 
2-4pm, Wed 20 July

Creative Writing Part 2
2-4pm, Fri 22 July

About Karen

Karen Davitt is a graduate of the VCA Melbourne University Drama School, and the Lecole Phillippe Gaulier in London. She has a career that spans over twenty years featuring work in film and television as an actor as well as work as a writer, director, filmmaker, musician, latex creature creator, and creative producer.  

Her roles in television and mini series include Stark, Mercury, Wildside and lead roles in the long-running series Blue Heelers, and Skirts. Her film roles include Ned Kelly, Quigley, The Ripper, and A Dancing Foot and Praying Knee. 

Karen has created written and directed large scale live and filmed projects including Subterrain for Melbourne International Festival, and Pants on Fire for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2021, her collaborative short film Lovely Day was awarded an AFI and Yoram Gross Award. 

Karen has extensive teaching/lecturing experience and continues to teach into the acting and directing courses at VCA Film and TV, VCA Drama, Federation University, La Trobe University, 16th Street, Film and TV International, Toi Whakaari, and Royal Court London, amongst others. 

She has taught a range of topics including classical text, naturalism, improvisation monologues and mask work, and specializes in teaching acting to camera and actor/director workshops. 

Health and Safety 

We strongly recommend you wear a mask, maintain a distance of 1.5 metres, and practice good hygiene when attending workshops in STF Spark Series.