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Having graduated from Cambridge University in 2021, I’ve since been part of the Marlowe Writer’s Room and The Hackney Empire Writer’s Room. In an overpriced bid to find dramatic fellowship, I’m currently undertaking the Playwriting Msc The University of Edinburgh  thanks to the William Hunter Sharpe Memorial Scholarship.

My work has been long-listed for the Bill Cashmore Award and shared at scratch nights and festivals up and down the UK, from Stratford East and Greenwich Theatre to Bedford Fringe and Stage2Page in Glasgow. As a company member of the Edinburgh-based theatre collective Heads on Crooked, I also love directing and dramaturging new work by other emerging creatives.

My plays span genre and form: set anywhere from the London Underground to the South Pole, following  cardboard-box-people to a woman who wants to be a donut. Despite their seeming disparity, my plays often stem from the paradoxical state of being both the oppressor and the oppressed. My work explores how individual  acts of complicity add up to prop up and perpetuate systems of harm. How do our own human acts of ignorance, silence or carelessness help create  inhuman systems of white supremacist, capitalist patriarchal oppression? And, more imaginatively, how do we transform ourselves? 

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SHOEBOX'D
REASONS i love my rabbit
ARSEHOLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD 
Labyrinths of fire
but the wolf survives

As Seen at

Stoke The Embers, Taking Centre Stage
June 2024

Riverside Studios

The Masterclass Trust, Script Scratch,
March 2024

The Other Palace

Ricochet Theatre,
July 2023

Bedford Fringe

Ricochet Theatre, Bulletpoints Showcase
January 2024

Greenwich Theatre

Freelance Royalty Scratch Night
September 2023

Stratford East

Writers Rooms & “Formal Training”

University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall — English Literature BA

University of Edinburgh — Playwriting Msc

Theatre 503, London — Script Reader

The Hackney Empire, London — Writers’ Room

“Fucking brilliant” - Leo Butler

“Fucking brilliant” - Leo Butler

"You have to write the whole play" - Ellie Fulcher

"You have to write the whole play" - Ellie Fulcher

“This should be an idiom tbh” - Zakiyyah Deen

“This should be an idiom tbh” - Zakiyyah Deen