The Outsiders Project: Writers on Writing with Andrew Rattenbury

Join us for the next session in our workshop series, Writers on Writing, hosted by The Outsiders Project at TOSH. The Outsiders Project runs workshops throughout the year with marginalised communities in Boscombe. This workshop series is open to anyone who identifies with the Outsider Artist Criteria below. If you have any questions, please contact our Community Project Coordinator, Caroline, at [email protected].

Between November 2025 and May 2026, professional writers visit TOSH to discuss their pathways, inspirations and practice, answer questions about the writing process, and lead practical workshops on specific aspects of writing.

This session features Andrew Rattenbury, an experienced screenwriter and playwright. Andrew will talk about his route into writing, how projects develop from idea to script, and what craft choices matter most when writing for screen and stage. There will be time for questions, followed by a practical writing session.

Andrew Rattenbury has created the 4 part medical miniseries The Golden Hour (Fremantle and ITV), starring Richard Armitage, and adapted the Andy McNab crime thriller The Grey Man into a single drama (Leopard Pictures and BBC), starring Olivia Colman.

He is currently developing original ideas for television with various production companies, including adapting three novels by the late Warren Adler for the Adler Entertainment Trust under their first look deal with Searchlight Pictures.

His episodic television credits include Doc Martin, Hotel Babylon, Harley Street, Teachers, Trust, Absolute Power, Monarch of the Glen, and Primeval, plus continuing dramas including Holby City, EastEnders, Casualty, Hollyoaks, The Bill, and M**der Investigation Team.

Andrew’s stage adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice transferred from Leeds Playhouse to the West End, starring Val Kilmer and Charlotte Emmerson. His one person show Mayakovsky: The Slanting Rain debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to the Swan Theatre and the John Houseman Theater Studio, Off Broadway.

The Outsiders Project began with a performance created for BEAF Arts Co Festival in 2018. Four artists who had previously taken part in writing workshops came together to make a site specific storytelling show combining words and music. Every word was written, spoken and performed by the artists themselves.

Since then, The Outsiders Project has grown into a project shaped by the artists it supports. It has produced performances, toured to prisons and created publications and exhibitions. The project focuses on amplifying the voices of people who are unheard and marginalised. Work is first shared locally before being taken to wider audiences.

The Outsiders Project runs free creative writing and photography workshops throughout the year with marginalised communities in Boscombe. These workshops help participants develop skills, confidence and self belief.

Workshops are open to anyone over 18 who has been sidelined from society and whose voice has not been heard. The Outsiders Project welcomes participants who have experienced challenges such as physical limitations, addiction, low income, domestic or sexual abuse, homelessness or insecure housing, leaving care or Pr*son, institutional abuse, displacement or seeking asylum, or long term use of mental health services.

See more information at gotbeaf.co.uk

If you are coming by foot or by bus, take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if travelling from Southbourne, or the stop after Aldi if coming from Poole or Bournemouth. If you are coming by car, we recommend parking in the Sovereign Centre car park. There is limited free on site parking at TOSH which is first come, first served.

Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15 to 20 minute walk to TOSH along Christchurch Road.

TOSH has accessible toilets and kitchen facilities. If you have any access needs you would like to let us know about, please email [email protected].

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