Freddie Machin
- Title
- Lecturer in Screenwriting
- Location
- f.machin@keele.ac.uk
Biography
Freddie is a playwright, screenwriter and educator. He writes drama with a social conscience and sense of humour, which often revolves around taut, disrupted family dynamics.
His first stageplay, Chicken, was produced at Southwark Playhouse in 2011. He subsequently adapted it to feature film and the movie got its UK cinema release in May 2016. Mark Kermode included it in his best films of that year for the Guardian newspaper and it is now available on MUBI.com.
He has written a number of plays for UK drama schools including The Real Estate, which is published with Nick Hern Books and has been produced more than a dozen times in schools, colleges and universities.
He is an associate artist with Kristine Landon-Smith and associates. He creates and directs headphone verbatim productions in a range of contexts with both actors and non-actors. Headphone verbatim forms the basis of his academic research in his role as Lecturer in Screenwriting at Keele University, where he is designing and developing a number of headphone based projects. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a PGCertHE.
Teaching
I am the lecturer in screenwriting, leading modules on writing for both stage and screen.
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
CBA1.017
Chancellor’s Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5AA
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733109
Email: humss.office@keele.ac.uk
Head of School
Professor Siobhan Talbott
Room: CBA1.025
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733464
Email: s.talbott@keele.ac.uk
School and college outreach
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 734009
Email: outreach@keele.ac.uk
