Inaugural Lecture

Professor Adam Ganz
Department of Media Arts

I give you the end of a golden string ; Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall. - William Blake

Adam Ganz is Professor of Screenwriting at Royal Holloway, writes for theatre screen and radio and theorist of stories and how they are told.  He was Co-Investigator and Head of Writer’s Room at StoryFutures and is now Co-Investigator at the CoSTAR National Lab.

He will talk about place-based storytelling and using archive to find stories- with examples from his own practice including musical theatre piece Felix’s Room, which premiered at the Berliner Ensemble in 2023 Docfiction film This Blessed Plot, and Royal Holloway itself. 

Admission is free, but booking is essential.