I am an emerging yet award-winning, neurodivergent playwright and voice artist from Cornwall, who likes to tell uncompromising, innovative and honest stories with a brutally humorous vibe.
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My Funny Women lauded two-hander Marital Bed will have a rehearsed reading at Greenwich Theatre studio on Tuesday 30th June at 7.30pm, as part of their new programme to support new writing. It’s an edgy, zeit-geisty dark comedy/drama about pornography, desire and laundry.
In March the wonderful Presence Theatre company hosted a reading of my multi-media epic about VR mitigated climate catastrophe, Red Basin which gave me lots to think about.
After many months of research into the history and culture surrounding mental health services in England, I have begun drafting scenes for my new project Bound. The story explores the old English asylum system and the gaslighting that led to the forced incarceration of so many ‘inconvenient’ women (including my great-grandmother) in the first half of the twentieth century, and the powerful consequences of hiding those women away that still reverberate for us today. The play includes my first character fully-embracing of their neurodivergence, it’s such fun to write, truly liberating!
I’m also excited to start recording the tenth book in the Crow Investigations series. I love re-visiting these characters and viewing the grimy parts of London through a magical realism lens.
You can still listen to my award-winning radio play Little Blue Lines.About Me
To me, acting and writing are both about scouring for the truth and baring our souls. There is still a lot of truth to be told about being a woman, and I strive to fill a few of the gaps left by playwrights over the centuries.
I come from Cornwall and abandoned the big sea for the big smoke at 17 to train at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Twenty years later (and despite only achieving ‘commended’ on my Dip. Acting) I still earn a living acting, recording voiceovers and writing drama.
Aside from writing and acting I love exploring the outdoors, singing and confronting brutal life lessons from my three kids with as much humour and dignity intact as possible.
Photo: Nicky Vincent
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