Stella G

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bedales School: GCSE – English Literature A*; RS A*; History A*; Spanish A*; Theatre Studies A*; Physics A ; Biology A; Chemistry A; Maths A

Brighton College: A-LEVELS – English Literature A*; Theatre studies A*; Philosophy A

The University of Edinburgh - Social Anthropology BA (Scottish Masters) - 1st

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Love Learning Tutors

Common Entrance: English, Maths, Science, History

GCSE: History, Philosophy, RS

A-Level: English Language, English Literature, Sociology, Anthropology (Degree level and below), Theatre Studies (Degree level and below)

Freelance facilitator
Of a host of text-based, script and creative writing workshops for young adults

Brighton College
A-level English Literature and Theatre Studies tutoring, 100% A-A* results

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Royal Court - Writer's Group 2025

Research assistant - to the author Thomas Harding. Archival responsibilities + the creation of research summary documents.

Women’s Prize for Playwriting Shortlist and longest (2020, 2023)

Brite Theatre - Commissioned writer under Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, extending from time as a member of Traverse Theatre Writers Group

Commissioned writer, Baker Street

Prods. - Commissioned audio play for COP26 climate change summit.

Artistic Director Definitely Fine Theatre - Duties inc. forming rel's with leading regional arts buildings + production management. Recipient of major Arts Council funding.

Educational work - practitioner for Edinburgh University (2021-22), writing workshops for current students (having been Lead Facilitator of new writing for Bedlam Theatre 2017-’19)

Canvas Magazine, Sleeve Damage Music, Daughterhood, Noises-Off 2020, 21, 22 - Commissioned print writer.

I am a voracious and broad reader of literature, play-texts, and nonfiction, but have spent the majority of my working life in the theatre industry, where I am a playwright (short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting), script-reader and coverage writer for TV production. Consequently, I have an extensive knowledge of live art, performance and the arts sector. I am also a social organiser interested in Europe’s anti-fascist histories, a huge music and film fan, and a passionate art and social histories advocate. 

WORK EXPERIENCE 

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
NEW DIORAMA THEATRE, LONDON
October 2023- present
Creative and administrative support across the building’s programme. Recently leading w/ senior staff on The Knot, a week-long business skills bootcamp for independent, early career artists neglected by the Post-Covid landscape.

SCRIPT EDITOR
ELEVENTH HOUR FILMS, LONDON
April 2024 - present
Report writer for TV/film production house Eleventh Hour Films

SCRIPT READER

BUSH THEATRE, LONDON
Feb 2024 - present
Script reader for the Bush Theatre Literary Department

WRITER
DISTILLED POST, LONDON
October 2023- present
Writer for Distilled Post, in-house report on NHS COO conferences. Responsibilities inc. the summarising of roundtable discussions into a concise and journalistic report for the main charity body.

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
JERMYN STREET THEATRE, LONDON
January 2022 - January 2023
1 of 6 artists in residence to develop new work in association with this West End venue.

PROJECT ASSISTANT, NDT BROADGATE, LONDON|
August 2021- Jan 2022
Responsibilities inc. : management of artist rota, liaison w/ companies and artists for independent needs, staff scheduling, distribution and management of 20 rehearsal and studio spaces and principle reception duties (Skedda, NLiven).

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, FRECKLE PRODUCTIONS, BRIGHTON - LONDON
May - July 2020
Administrative assistant with children’s theatre company Freckle Productions. Work inc. budgets, social media output, tour management for UK-wide tour of Number 1 venues and logistical duties for a major theatre producing house.

PERSONAL STATEMENT 

I believe that education, at its most powerful, instils in us the language and framework to understand the world. I was doing my GCSEs when a teacher in passing remarked that ‘to understand is to know what to do’. At sixteen, I knew that I wanted to know what to do, and now, I gathered, this first meant understanding. But understanding what? And how? Could someone provide me with a comprehensive list of what I needed to understand so that I could cross each item off? So that I could then know what to do? I wanted very desperately to understand the world, but I wasn’t sure how to, and as I trudged through the last years of my education, I felt this desperation to learn fade under the weight of curriculums, requirements, and the build-up to a ‘future’ that was seemingly completely disconnected from the knowledge I was so urgently trying to acquire. I lost the memory of my curiosity, of the sense of expansion that comes with knowing, and of the sixteen year old who was so hungry to understand. It wasn’t until university that I remembered that hunger, and I haven’t forgotten it since.

Now, as an adult, I am committed to maintaining an active relationship to my knowledge and education, my most fulfilling work coming from facilitating workshops with young and emerging writers in the arts sector, and from existing in academic and educational spaces with peers and students alike. It is a passion for the liberation and expansion that comes from knowing that underscores my work as a tutor.

I am deeply committed to tailoring the nature of my teaching in order to empower a student to find that feeling for themselves, and so too, to instil a lifelong relationship to the fact of that feeling’s existence. Whether looking at the content of a curriculum, exam technique, or revision skills, it is my belief that supporting a student to discover and preserve their relationship to curiosity is at the heart of great teaching and, more than this, at the heart of a relationship to learning capable of outliving our time in the school system.