Around the same time, our wonderfully generous Board Members, Mike Figgis and the late Anthony Minghella offered to give Script Factory Masterclasses, and so began a thrilling series of preview screenings, Masterclasses and Q & A sessions all focused on the role of the script and the screenwriting talent behind it The Script Factory was established by Charlotte Macleod and Lucy Scher and staged an annual season of Performed Screenplay Readings by the very best of UK screenwriting talent In case you’ve never come across us before, here’s a brief history of The Script Factory’s adventures in the art and business of screenwriting so far… We launched one of the UK’s first script reading services for writers, started training Script Readers and by 2004 had a comprehensive programme for training and developing screenwriters