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Writing
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Mid-Full LEngth PLays
(in development) Saving Amber. 90-minute play about a young woman’s fight to emancipate herself from an exploitative influencer mother. Winner of the Methuen Marlowe Other Prize for Drama 2023.
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2024, The Shadow. Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music 45-minute piece about Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale ‘The Shadow’ told alongside the story of his relationship with Charles Dickens. Written to be interwoven with original music by composer George Parris.
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2022-present Moderation. Premiere in Cambridge at the ADC in 2022 / Greenside Mint Studio and The Grand Theatre, theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall for EdFringe 2023 /(upcoming) Greenwich Theatre’s Pick of the Fringe season October 2023 60-minute play about the trauma faced by social media moderators. Winner of the CUADC Playwriting Award and the Cambridge Creatives Playwriting Competition, 2022. Winner of the ‘Two Bens’ competition for a fully funded slot at the EdFringe – after selling out its first week its run there was extended and moved to a larger venue with theSpace. Off West End Award nominated.
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2021-ongoing In a Cave, a Voice. Pembroke Players, National Student Drama Festival 50-minute play about isolation, set in a cave, winner of the Pembroke Players Playwriting Competition and selected for the competitive NSDF 2021. In development for future festivals.
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2021 Wilde About Oscar. Tour of Italy and Switzerland. Revived version of The Dreaming Prince.
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2021 The Spirit of St Leonard’s. YPPT, St Leonard’s Church. Lottery-funded heritage project commissioned through the Young People’s Puppet Theatre. Part of a celebration of a restoration project.
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2019 The Crossing Place and A Grim Day Out. YPPT, St Alban’s Cathedral. Commissioned heritage community project: two short plays for children about the history of the abbey and St Alban.
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2019 The Folkman’s Tale. Shake and Create, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. 45-minute play co-written with Lucia Xu for our MA in Shakespeare and Creativity.
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2018 The Lady’s Mad. Thistledown Theatre, Midlands Tour. 90-minutes. Original story about the women prophets of the English civil war. Performed in Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Wallingford. One of 4 finalists for the 2020 Questors Student Playwriting Award.
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2018-9 The Dreaming Prince. Charioteer Theatre, Italian Tour. 50-minutes. Commissioned one-man show about a young Oscar Wilde. Premiered in the Arena Del Sole in Bologna, and Teatro Comunale in Casalmaggiore and toured across Italy for two years.
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2018 My Sister’s Feet. Young People’s Puppet Theatre, UK Schools Tour. 50-minutes. Commissioned original story about foot-binding in China.
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2017-ongoing A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Young People’s Puppet Theatre, UK schools Tour. 50-minutes. Commissioned adaptation for primary school children. A second adaptation also commissioned for older, secondary school children.
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2016 Naked is the Realm. St Peter’s College, Oxford. 90-minutes. Student production. Original story about medical diagrams and censorship in the sixteenth century. Supported by the Museum of the History of Science and the Bodleian Print Room. One of 8 finalists for the Radius 2020 Playwriting Competition.
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Short Plays
2023 How to. Slackline Productions, The Pleasance, London. 10-minute play written, produced, and performed within 24 hours.
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2022 A Song of Silent Wonders. Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College, Cambridge Festival - Commissioned radio play with original music about the woman science-artist who first recorded deep sea fish.
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2021 There is a Door. Downing Drama Society, New Writing Festival, Howard Theatre. 20-minute play which hypothesizes: ‘what if the internet was a library, and one day you came across the dark web…?’ One of 9 plays selected.
2020 The Winter Lamb. The Marlowe Society, online release during Covid. 10-minute folk horror radio play. One of 8 audio dramas selected for the Hatch Holiday Special.
2020 She-Bear. Popelei, online release during Covid. 5-minute monologue about a woman who finds she can turn into a polar bear. One of 25 monologues to be awarded the Popelei 2020 Seed Commission.
2020 Landing Fall. Theatre503, online release during Covid. 10-minute play about PTSD written in as a ‘Rapid Write Response’ to Andrew Rosendorf’s Paper Cut. One of the 12 plays chosen.
2020 Intuition. Slackline Productions, The Southwark Playhouse, London. 15-minute play written, produced, and performed within 24 hours as part of International Women’s Day.
2019 Ugly Soup. Wrong Shoe Theatre Company, Front Room Theatre, London. 15-minute horror play for the ‘Wrong Spook’ scratch night. One of 8 plays chosen.
2019 Bats. Slackline Production, The Southwark Playhouse, London. 10-minute play required to feature a female protagonist over the age of 35. One of 6 plays chosen from over 140 submissions.
2019 Some Necessary Measures. Black Cat Theatre, The Pleasance, London. 10-minute play, one of 8 chosen for the ‘Millennials’ scratch night from over a hundred submissions.
2019 Quest Invisible. Plays Rough, The Old Red Lion, London. 15-minute play without spoken words for the ‘Theatre Without Sight and Sound night. One of 6 plays chosen from over 200 submissions.
2019 I’ll Explain it Using Fish. Sharp Scratches, Theatre Deli, London.15-minute play on the theme of mental health. One of 8 plays chosen from over 370 submissions.
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Awards/Competitions
2023 Winner Methuen Marlowe Other Prize for Drama. For Saving Amber.
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2023 Nominee Off West End awards. For Moderation. Finalists tbc.
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2023 Winner, Two Ben’s competition for a fully-funded Edinburgh Fringe slot. For Moderation.
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2022 Winner, Cambridge Creatives Playwriting Award. For Moderation.
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2022 Winner, CUADC Playwriting Award. For Moderation.
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2022 Nominated for the Brighton International Fringe Encore Award sponsored by Soho Playhouse NYC. For In A Cave, A Voice.
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2021 Winner, Pembroke Playwriting Competition. For In A Cave, A Voice.
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2020 Finalist, Radius Drama Award. For Naked is the Realm. One of 8 finalists.
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2020 Finalist, Questors Student Playwriting Award. For The Lady’s Mad. One of 4 finalists.