About

I am a playwright, dramaturg, and theatre-maker.

I am an Associate Playwright at the Royal Court Theatre in London. I am also the Young Writers Associate there, working towards developing the national landscape for young playwrights.

My play The Ballad of Maria Marten has toured three times and is published by Nick Hern Books. In 2024 it was NHB’s second most frequently performed play around the world.

I am an Associate Artist at Rabble Theatre Company in Reading, who have commissioned me to write several historical plays about the history of Reading Abbey. My play Henry I was in The Telegraph’s top 5 shows of 2023, and Spy in the Stalls’ Best Regional Show of the Year.

I’ve been lucky enough to work with many other wonderful companies such as Paines Plough, New Diorama, Rabble Theatre Company, The Watermill, and Eastern Angles.

I’m currently working on several new plays.

Such a joy to be spending my Saturdays working with this talented bunch for 10 weeks 😍
Break a leg @madstheatre 🔥🔥🔥
Finally had the joy of seeing this glorious show by @steelbeth1 🤩
I hadn't heard the term 'Thrutopia' but thrilled to find out I have written one 😃 Back in 2019 I was commissioned by the wonderful @beckyburchell22 to adapt Jonathon Porritt's book The World We Made, which imagined a world in which we have success
Some more photos from the William the Conqueror R&D (I'm desperately trying to work out what to say in the sharing at the last minute 😀). Thank you to the beautiful bunch at @rabble_theatre Photos by Adam Adrian Directed by @halchambers1 With
My adaptation of the classic Dickens story, set in the Huntley and Palmers Biscuit Factory, is coming back to Reading Rep this Christmas 😀 @readingrep Directed by @chriswcuming Designed by @nickybunchdesign 🎟️ Tickets are now on sale 💸 Get 20
The Ballad of Maria Marten in Japan. Thank you so much to On7 for sharing these gorgeous pictures! Translated by Noriko Odashima, directed by Tera Jusai Produced by @on7.onnana at Sun Mall Studio, Tokyo. @nickhernbooks @easternangles
The first performances of the Young Playwrights Festival today 🤩 THESE PLAYS ARE 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Good luck to Stockton Heath Methodist Dramatic Society this week #mariamarten @nickhernbooks
An intense and absorbing week working on the draft of William the Conqueror with a lovely team at . @rabble_theatre . By the end of day 2 I had cut half the characters and a third of the dialogue 😁. So grateful to these brilliant actors for trying
Working on the Royal Court Young Playwrights Award continues to be an utter joy. These plays are amazing 🔥 @royalcourttheatre

 

 

Upcoming

A Christmas Carol at Reading Rep, directed by Chris Cuming, Dec 2025

Glitch by Zannah Kearns will be touring the UK in 2026 (I am the dramaturg)

Awards & Schemes

Peggy Ramsay Award 2024

Winner of an MGCfutures Bursary for theatre-makers of the future, 2021.

Selected for the Sphinx Lab for British female playwrights 2020 - 2021.

Bruntwood Prize Longlist (2019) the Hope Mill Playwriting Prize Shortlist (2021) and Papatango Prize Longlist (2017), for The True History of Susanna Shakespeare

Off West End Award Nomination for Most Promising New Playwright 2018 (Rebellious Women)

Off West End Award Nomination for Best Director 2016 (Hardboiled)

Recent Projects

Rebellious Women, my play about the Suffragettes, was published by Nick Hern Books in March 2025.

Glitch (Dramaturg) by Zannah Kearns, produced by Rabble, June - July 2024

Henry I, commissioned by Rabble Theatre and performed in the ruins of Reading Abbey, June - July 2023

The Newcomers, co-written with Pragna Hay, produced by Rabble & BBC Berkshire, on BBC Sounds, October 2022