This week, we caught up with playwright, director, Open Clasp Associate Director and clown doctor Laura Lindow. We talk to Laura about how she went from making virtuoso hot chocolates to writing such Northern Stage smash hits as The War of the Worlds and The Snow Queen and Cap-a-Pie's Woven Bones, the need for wine budgets, and the stages of the writing process including the Formless Hunch and Active Mulling. Enjoy.

Transcript available to download here.

Resource links:

Laura Lindow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tantaloupe?lang=en

Open Clasp Theatre Company: https://www.openclasp.org.uk/

Theatre Workshop Stocksbridge: https://www.edinburghguide.com/venue/theatreworkshopformer

Northumbria University Theatre & Performance BA: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/ba-hons-theatre-and-performance-uustpe1/

Live Theatre: https://www.live.org.uk/

The Empty Space: https://www.esonline.org/

Heartbreak Soup: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/heartbreaksoup-rev

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: https://www.edfringe.com/

Leighton Live: https://www.facebook.com/leightonhall.live/

Cap-a-Pie: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/

Woven Bones: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/woven-bones/

Credit: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/credit/

The Adam Buxton Podcast: https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts

Spoonface Steinberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonface_Steinberg

Key Change: https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/key-change

Writers Group - Royal Court: https://royalcourttheatre.com/playwriting/writers-groups/

The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud5jsvC1x4g

NORTH The War of the Worlds: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/02/the-war-of-the-worlds-review-hg-wells

The Snow Queen: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/cast-and-creative-team-announced-for-the-snow-queen

A Play, A Pint and A Pie:  https://playpiepint.com/

Traverse Theatre: https://www.traverse.co.uk/

Playwrights' Studio Scotland: https://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/

Sea Window Craster: https://twitter.com/seaskycraster?lang=en

Caroline Bird: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/caroline-bird