Dave Windass

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About Dave Windass

Dave Windass is a writer, artist and producer based in the city of Hull. He writes for performance. He also provides creative writing and communications services. For Hull Truck he has written Ballroom Blitz (2012), On A Shout (2008), Sully (2006) and Kicked Into Touch (2005). Other plays include Revolutions (E52, 2015), Yalda (with Roya Amiri, 2015), site-specific productions The Whitsun Weddings (E52/Larkin 25, 2014), City Sketch (with Richard Vergette for E52, 2013) and Euphoria (E52, 2012), Firestarter (E52, 2012) and Thinspiration (Humber Mouth, 2010). He has written four alternative pantos for Middle Child Theatre Company. For E52, he co-produces Heads Up Festival, produced in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre. He co-founded city centre venue and E52′s base The Other Space - which became Kardomah94 - in 2013. He founded the long-running theatre development night Scratch@Fruit in 2010. He was a founder member, in 2003, of Hull Truck’s Blockheads, which aimed to develop and explore skills in writing for the stage. He has facilitated creative writing workshops for a wide range of organisations, including Hull Truck, the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Sheffield Young Writers, the University of Hull and Hull School of Art & Design. He led Hull Truck’s successful PlayWrite course in 2011. He was script consultant on Cascade Arts’ Dickens-inspired interactive storytelling project Open Threads (2012) and, for Collaborate, Create, Engage and Future Ferens he co-created the Gypsy & Traveller exhibition To Be Able To Pull Up and Sit and Have a Chat Around The Fire (2012) with Matt Stephenson. He frequently works as a dramaturg and new writing mentor. He has provided communications and creative writing services to the private, public and voluntary sectors, is a former journalist and also an award-winning blogger. He was a lecturer at Hull School of Art & Design from 2009-2014. He is the co-chair of What Next? Hull.