A Dramatic Improvement

23/01/2026

This weekend at Bewleys Cafe Theatre

📆Sat Jan 24: 6- 7:30 p.m
📆Sun Jan 25: 3-4:30pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/d/ireland--dublin/making-a-show-of-myself/?page=1&hash=9a88d00474fd29168cfe41b4988a00df

Some kind words people wrote after our show on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe website 💕

Ahead of its off-Broadway debut, MAKING A SHOW OF MYSELF will have two special performances this weekend:

📍 Bewley’s Cafe Theatre

📆Sat Jan 24: 6- 7:30 p.m
📆Sun Jan 25: 3-4:30pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/d/ireland--dublin/making-a-show-of-myself/?page=1&hash=9a88d00474fd29168cfe41b4988a00df

04/01/2026

We are excited to announce a ✨new price list✨

Writing your screenplay doesn’t have to cost you if it’s not something you can afford right now 📝

Our new price list accommodates everyone.

Dedicate one evening a week this year with us, write brilliant idea be amazed at what you achieve!

⏰Live sessions on Tuesday evenings, 19:30 Irish time.
All sessions are recorded so you do not miss out if you can’t attend some of the sessions.
💰€399 to €99
🔗Booking link:https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/write-your-screenplay-winter-%2F-spring-2026.-

03/01/2026

Start 2026 off right with our Screenwriting Course beginning on Tuesday 6th Jan 🎉

Over the course of 8 weeks, this programme will bring you through the process of:
➡️clarifying your idea,
➡️outlining your narrative,
➡️delineating your characters,
➡️plotting an arc of transformation and
➡️writing key scenes.

There will be bonus material on how to make a simple pitch deck, how to make connections and how to approach people who can help you to get your film made.

All participants will have access to extra online materials including film analyses.

There will be assignments each week for you to complete on your own schedule.

If you have the time to odevite to it, you can complete a new draft of your project over the course of the programme. If your time is tight, you can proceed at your own pace.

⏰Live sessions on Tuesday evenings, 19:30 Irish time.
All sessions are recorded so you do not miss out if you can’t attend some of the sessions.
💰€399
🔗https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/write-your-screenplay-winter-%2F-spring-2026.-

26/09/2025

In honour of the late Robert Redford, we will hosting an online ✨FREE MASTERCLASS ✨ next month.

In this once off masterclass we will examine The Sequence Approach by studying The Sting starring the late Robert Redford.

Join us for a deep-dive into the legendary 1973 classic and discover how the Sequence Approach can transform your screenwriting and storytelling.

📅 Sunday, 5th October
🕑 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM
🔗 Free but booking necessary: https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/free-masterclass

22/09/2025

Our Write Your Screenplay course may have began last week, but we are still welcoming participants ✍️

We record all of our sessions so you will be able to catch up easily 🎬 This programme also gives you access to fifty hours of bonus online material to work through, in your own time, during or after the programme.

Dedicate the time to your screenplay and learn the art of screenwriting along the way.

🔗Book now: https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/writeyourscreenplayautumn2025

11/09/2025

Write Your Screenplay in 10 weeks with us!
https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/writeyourscreenplayautumn2025

This September, write your screenplay with us ✒️

On a 10 week online course run by renowned story experts Mary Kate O Flanagan and Rachel O Flanagan you will:

➡️Create a brief outline that communicates the essence of your original idea in 500 words or less.
➡️ Write a four-page outline that will make people want to read your screenplay
➡️Write a compelling logline
➡️Create a pitch deck to send out to potential producers, funders and creative collaborators
➡️Write sample pages that will demonstrate your ability to write visually
➡️ Learn how to write for the screen that will serve all your writing in the future

📆Course starts 16th Sept & runs for 10 weeks
🔗Booking link: https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/writeyourscreenplayautumn2025

11/09/2025

This September, write your screenplay with us ✒️

On a 10 week online course run by renowned story experts Mary Kate O Flanagan and Rachel O Flanagan you will:

➡️Create a brief outline that communicates the essence of your original idea in 500 words or less.
➡️ Write a four-page outline that will make people want to read your screenplay
➡️Write a compelling logline
➡️Create a pitch deck to send out to potential producers, funders and creative collaborators
➡️Write sample pages that will demonstrate your ability to write visually
➡️ Learn how to write for the screen that will serve all your writing in the future

📆Course starts 16th Sept & runs for 10 weeks
🔗Booking link: https://www.adramaticimprovement.com/workshop/writeyourscreenplayautumn2025

05/11/2024

We have a full house for Making A Show of Myself at Smock Alley Theatre tonight. This is our third run here and we’re so happy to be rounding up this years tour back where it all started. Feels like coming home.

Tickets still on sale for the rest of the week - last chance to witness me making a spectacle of myself for now before we take it overseas.
(www.makingashowofmyself.com)

30/10/2024

One of my all-time favourite scenes from one of my all-time favourite movies. Go with God.

Tootsie - Teri Garr Freaks Out: Michael (Dustin Hoffman) comes clean (sort of) with Sandy (Teri Garr).BUY THE MOVIE: https://www.vudu.com/content/browse/deta...

09/10/2024

If you haven’t seen me show yet, there are two more chances to miss it before the year closes.

Making A Show of Myself will be on at The Civic Theatre October 22-25 and there’s a promo code for friends and well wishers: MK24. You can use it online at https://www.civictheatre.ie/whats-on/making-a-show-of-myself/ or call the Box Office in 01 4627477 and quoteMK24 to make your booking.

The show will also be on at Smock Alley November 5-9 2024. Tickets on sale here: https://smockalley.com/making-a-show-of-myself/

An Irish raconteur shares the most ridiculous, embarrassing, hilarious and tragic episodes of her life, showing there's a story in every stumble - and a little magic in every story.

04/10/2024

Friends in Poland hope to see you there.

16 października, w ramach warsztatów Warsaw Next, odbędzie się wykład otwarty Mary Kate O Flanagan, czołowej europejskiej ekspertki narracji filmowej o tym, jak skutecznie przyciągnąć i utrzymać uwagę widzów w kinie:  The Three Hard Rules of Storytelling on The Screen Revealed in Three ...

30/08/2024

https://www.corkindependent.com/2024/08/21/storytelling-has-become-my-religion/

A hit show from one of the country’s most exciting creative minds is coming to Cork city next week.