plays

  • Previously: rehearsed readings at Cambridge Junction Theatre, April 2025, and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, July 2025.

    Barcelona, summer 2015. Club rep Jon is sure he met the love of his life on a bar crawl last night – the only problem is he can’t remember anything that happened after that. Don Jon in Barcelona is a one man play performed by a woman, about the awkward relationship between seduction, masculinity and consent.

    Full production info coming soon.

  • gentlemen of the jury is a new play/experiment about the re-criminalisation of abortion and the corrosion of democracy. It went on 27th-29th June, Cambridge Guildhall, produced by AKRO Theatre

    ☆☆☆☆☆ - Spy in the Stalls “arresting, unsettling and grounded“

    ☆☆☆☆ - East Midland Theatre “thought provoking, urgent and highly relevant“

  • “Nobody wants to watch a play about misogyny.”

    At a London secondary school, four students navigate ambition, rage and first love. At an East Coast university, a playwriting student attempts to stage an ethical femicide. Softboy is an exploration of desire, anger and the meta-theatrics of misogyny.

    Softboy was performed in June 2024 at Mountview, directed by Lilly Butcher. The script was long-listed for both the Eugene O’Neill Centre’s National Playwright’s Conference and Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award in 2025.

  • Stu Bailey is the leadership candidate everyone’s been waiting for - principled, charismatic, resolute - and when Sophie joins his campaign, it’s her chance to make a difference. But as scandal sweeps the commons, Sophie is faced with an impossible decision. What’s more important - integrity or victory? And what are we willing to look past for a better world?

    MESSIAH is a new play about sex, class and power in a time of political crisis. It played 20th-25th May 2025 at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, with thanks to the Peter Shaffer foundation.

    ☆☆☆☆½ - The Tab “buoyant and cutting-edge…sharply funny”

    ☆☆☆☆ - Varsity “smart, bitingly funny, and emotionally astute”

  • "It feels weird saying this out loud but - I find it hard to believe someone could be interested in me. I'm not into stuff that most people are into. Romantically."

    Jamie has never been in a relationship before, but she knows all about desire and fantasy. Spending her nights working in a club cloakroom and her days taking care of her niece, she sets out to meet the one. But when a girl starts turning up to her house in the middle of the night, the memories she's pushed to the back of her mind get harder to ignore. What happens when we face our fantasies?

    don't stand so close to me was programmed at The King’s Head Theatre as part of their Sight Unseen season in April 2023, performed by Rosie Dwyer and Shadee Yaghoubi. It was directed by Aisling Towl.

    The play also received developmental support from the Omnibus Theatre in 2022 in the form of a rehearsed reading, and dramaturgical support from the Royal Court theatre, where it was first conceived as part of an intro to playwriting group.

  • On a hot evening at London Zoo, two women meet by the penguin enclosure. Pearl would really like to stay. Apple would like to clean up and go home. Penguins are not mammals. They hurl questions at the universe. Most mammals have hair. Where is Marcia?

    In 2021, pearl apple penguin was selected to be part of the 46th Annual Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Festival, New York. It was one of 6 winning plays chosen for publication by Samuel French.

    It went on again in London as part of the Golden Goose Theatre’s Writer’s festival in July 2023, directed by Poppy Sutch and performed by Caroline Menton, Alison Rose and Leanne Sule.

  • Carys turns up for her first shift at Godfrey’s restaurant determined to remain invisible. Instead, she finds her life increasingly entangled with the people she meets there, less and less able to hide from them, or herself.

    What happens when when you're too sad for work but it’s the only thing they’ll pay you for? Godfrey is a new play about hope, rage and gentrification.

    First commissioned as part of The Monobox's Playstart initiative in 2018, Godfrey started life as a 15-minute play in a warehouse in Bermondsey. Since then, it was developed into a full length piece, published in a collection by Oberon and long-listed for the Royal Court's Lynne Gagliano Prize 2019.

    Godfrey enjoyed a sold out run at the VAULTS festival in 2020, 3 weeks before the first Covid lockdown. It was directed by Roberta Zuric, produced by Sarah Stallwood-Hall, and performed by Lauren La Roque, Harriet Leitch, Sonny Poon-Tip and Jimmy Boswell.