FULL LENGTH PLAYS

 

Untitled Women of the Wars of the Roses play - TBA.
Play about the relationship between Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, Margaret of Anjou, and Cecily Neville.

 

The Best Days of Your Life - Derby Theatre commission. Winner, In Good Company Mid-Career Award.
This play explores disabled people's experience of the British school system across the years, and is being developed via workshop sessions with disabled and neurodivergent groups, home school groups, and community theatre groups.

 

Batman aka Naomi's Death Show - Chronic Insanity commission. Vault Festival/Nottingham Playhouse. Winner, Vault Origin Award.
An interactive show exploring death, the power of communal grieving, true crime, and the first person trauma industrial complex. And sharks.

 

Unicorn - Bush Theatre commission. Currently in development.
A young woman travels around her late mother's homeland, scattering her ashes and trying to discover who her mother was and why their relationship was so dysfunctional, only to be distracted by an enticing new relationship, having to ask herself: is this love, or just some fucked up misplaced grief thing?

 

Sketching - Wilton's Music Hall.
Collaboratively-written stage play written with eight other writers under head writer James Graham.

 

Puppy - Vault Festival/Women's International Playwriting Conference/TBA. Winner, Relish Theatre New Writing Award. Runner-up, Bread & Roses Award. This play is scheduled for production in early 2025.
Queer positive, sex positive lesbian romantic comedy about two women who meet and fall in love while dogging, found a feminist porn company together, but find their relationship tested by fame, and conflict with the government.

 

The Wild Tides of Clíodhna - Youth Theatre commission from Strange Days Theatre, which debuted at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
A group of teenagers attending a youth summer camp on a tiny Scottish island must put aside their feuds and burgeoning romances when the island is hit with a string of mysterious murders, with possibly monstrous origin.

 

Mischpoche, or Ruth and Ethel - Graeae/Birmingham Rep/off-Broadway/Tour/TBA.
(This started as a one-act play titled 'War Pig' (written for Graeae), which received an off-Broadway run as part of SMASH Feminist Theater Festival, was later produced at a theatre in San Francisco as part of a reproduction rights fundraiser for ReproRights,did a mini-tour of Northeast USA and Eastern Canada, and also had various performances in London. I then extended it to full-length and retitled it to 'Mischpoche, or Ruth and Ethel'. The full-length version received an R&D rehearsed reading with Angel Theatre Company, and is currently in development for full production.)
Two elderly Jewish women living in a Trump-loving Florida retirement community plan their own two-person Women's March, but find their friendship tested. This comedy explores Jewish diaspora identity, contemporary American politics, and female friendship.

 

Brenschluss - Graeae Theatre Commission, Curve Theatre. Finalist, Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award.
Queer dystopian drama about a lesbian couple living in a future where language is strictly controlled according to a caste system, who make very different choices: one to marry a man for status and power, the other to become a freedom fighter.

 

Double Infeminity - Vault Festival. Co-written with Catherine O'Shea and Jennifer Cerys.
Feminist satire based on the 1940s crime noir genre.

 

Claustrophilia - Vault Festival/Southwark Playhouse.
Drama about a kidnap survivor.

 

Tortoise - New Wolsey Theatre/Cockpit Theatre/Criterion Theatre (Criterion New Writing Programme showcase). Shortlisted, Athena Award. Shortlisted, Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. Longlisted, Bruntwood Prize. Longlisted, Papatango Award.
Comedy drama about three very different women living in a secure NHS psychiatric unit who form a close friendship and wreak havoc in the hospital.


ADAPTATIONS


A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens. Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Produced as part of the RSC Winter Stage Festival.

Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Power, Aristophanes. Commissioned by a Swedish drama school, but cancelled due to Covid.

 

 

DIGITAL THEATRE COMMISSIONS

Sandwiches, Cardboard Citizens.

Barba Streisand, Bush Theatre

Snakes and Ladders, Vault Creative Arts/Vault X commission

Londoninum, London Mayor's Office/Cultural Recovery Fund for Let's Go London

Batman, Chronic Insanity

The Ashes World Tour, Chronic Insanity

Woof Woof, Homotopia Arts

Untitled Woolwich Community Project, Greenwich Council

 

COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS

 

Mudlarking, Bush Theatre
Cripligraphy. Winner, Royal Society of Literature Award.
Philoxenia, Bush Theatre
The Neighbourhood Project, Bush Theatre
Disability Benefits Platform Theatre project

 

 


SHORT PLAYS AND MONOLOGUES

 

Stories from my Mother, Royal Court Theatre. Part of Open Court/Primetime.
Sugar Babies, Hightide Festival. Commissioned by St James Theatre RE:act.
The Dancing Cats, Lyric Hammersmith. Collaborative production celebrating Notting Hill Carnival.
The End of the Party, Trafalgar Studios. Part of 'Women of Paradise', new plays inspired by the works of Tennessee Williams.
Arbeit Macht Frei, Trafalgar Studios. Part of 'Women of Paradise', new plays inspired by the works of Tennessee Williams.
800 Weeks, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester/Ink Festival
The Frogs, Bolton Octogon. Winner, Best of Bolton Monologue Competition
The Island, Attenborough Arts Centre
Wonderwall, Arena Theatre Wolverhampton
Fallout, St James Theatre/Other Palace Theatre
War Pig. (See above)