Rachel Barnett-Jones - Writer and Producer
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Career Highlights


2025
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Back at Polka Theatre after a long absence with a new play!

2024
Invited to take part in a CBeebies Writers Room

2023
Selected as Artist in Residence for artsdepot's residency programme, 2023/2024
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Received a Peggy Ramsay Foundation grant.

A new commission from Polka Theatre and Singapore Repertory Theatre.

2022
One of the Creative-UK Accelerate Film and TV cohort.
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Accepted onto the ScreenSkills Writing for Animation course.

2019
​A commission from the Singapore Repertory Theatre for a new play for young audiences.

2017
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

Became a mother - best production to-date!

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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