About me

I’m a playwright and dramaturg of mixed Irish, English and Sri Lankan descent working in Devon and London. I’m drawn to stories that balance humour and darkness, and enjoy using metaphor and absurdism in my own work to provoke and entertain. At the centre point of my curiosity as a writer are the questions of what shapes us into who we are, and what has the power to change it. I aim to explore these ideas within rousing narratives that are often dark, but never without hope.

Since April 2021, I have been a member of Beyond Face’s We Are Here To Write programme for global majority writers in the South West. As part of this, I’ve written for Beyond Face Youth Company and have showcased my short play Moth Play at both Exeter Phoenix and The House, Plymouth, with the script later being shortlisted into the top 12% of submissions for the Royal Court Playwriting Groups 2022/23.

In 2022, I wrote my first full length play, Fragile House. That year, the script was shortlisted into the top 30 for Traverse Theatre’s Breakthrough Writers and longlisted for BOLD Playwrights. An experimental exploration of selected scenes from Fragile House was later showcased at The Curve as part of NSDF 2024.

My work has been shortlisted for The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2024 (Fragile House) and longlisted for the Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting, the inaugural Women in Theatre Lab, and Tara Theatre’s NOVA Seed Commissions 2024/25 (Wet Bulb).

Currently, I’m a Mentored Writer with Paines Plough and Landmark Theatres North Devon on their Tour the Writer programme. I’m developing my new play First Gravedigger, a political drama in which a young greengrocer is appointed as nuclear deputy in a seemingly rogue move by the Prime Minister, with dramaturgical support from Chris White.