Career Highlights2017
I am the Writer in Residence for Milton Keynes' 50th year. 2016 In March 2016 I was the inaugural writer in residence for the first ever Guildford Science and Arts Festival. 2015 Working with Theatre Centre to create a resource to link SPAG teaching with drama workshops 2014 First collection of plays to be published by Aurora Metro 2013 Gorilla commissioned and performed for four months at Polka Theatre Started to juggle playwriting with motherhood 2012 Noah commissioned and performed by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre Draw Me A Bird performed at The National Theatre as part of the Inside Out Festival Impropera received Arts Council England Funding to develop their new family show The Wobbly World of Opera Peut-être Theatre invited to perform at the Israel Festival for Children 2011 The Withered Arm performed at Tête a Tête: The Opera Festival Received a Brighton Festival Commission and Arts Council England funding for Draw Me a Bird Your Call Is Important To Us performed at Brighton Festival as part of the Up-Stream Showcase Invited to take part in a cultural exchange between Polka Theatre, London and La Baracca, Bologna 2010 Received Arts Council England funding to write a play, The Law of Inertia (working title). This project will culminate in a sharing at Oxford Playhouse Theatre. 2009 Short-listed for the Adrienne Benham Award, for emerging playwrights writing for young people, administered by the Theatre Centre 2008 Different plays being performed on the same day in the UK, USA and India Working as translator, dramaturg and producer on the first production for Peut-être Theatre Shortlisted for the Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Play Festival 2007 Recipient of a 'Special Commendation' in the Verity Bargate New Writing award for A Sky Full of Stars Shortlisted for the inaugural Young Theatre-Makers Bursary - supported by Company of Angels and The Junction, Cambridge for This is Not a Play - a new translation and adaptation of short stories written by Eugene Ionesco, a collaboration with director Daphna Attias 2006 "The 50" - One of 50 young writers supported by The BBC and the Royal Court to celebrate the Royal Court's 50th anniversary year Represented England in 'Poets Now' in Mulheim, Germany - a world cup for playwrights Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant - to support work at Chichester Festival Theatre Writer on Attachment at Chichester Festival Theatre Recipient of Welcome Trust Funding for Yellowing, with Sphinx Theatre Writer on Attachment at Sphinx Theatre, London 2005 Recipient of Arts Council Research and Development Funding for Yellowing |
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