About

I’m a playwright and dramaturg of mixed Irish, English and Sri Lankan descent from Combe Martin, working in Devon and London. I’m drawn to stories that balance humour and darkness, and aim to create politically charged work that often blends elements of absurdism and magical realism. 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.

In 2022, I wrote my first full-length play, FRAGILE HOUSE. That year, the script was shortlisted for Traverse Theatre’s Breakthrough Writers and longlisted for BOLD Playwrights. An experimental exploration of selected scenes was later showcased at The Curve as part of NSDF 2024, and in 2025 the full play had a script-in-hand performance at Omnibus Theatre, starring Frances Ruffelle and Adam Wadge.

FRAGILE HOUSE was shortlisted for The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2024 and The Ilfeld Prize 2025. As a playwright, I’ve also been longlisted for The Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting 2024 and the inaugural Women in Theatre Lab.

Currently, I’m a Mentored Writer on Paines Plough’s Tour the Writer programme. I’m developing my latest full-length play FIRST GRAVEDIGGER, a political pressure-cooker 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, Charlotte Bennett and Debo Adebayo. An extract from the play will be showcased at Paines Plough’s Tour the Writer Festival at the Belgrade Theatre in March 2026.

FIRST GRAVEDIGGER also made the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025 Longlist, and will undergo further development on their Future Light programme in 2026.

Other projects include WOLVES, a solo show about 22nd Century witches performed by Liv Koplick, which we’ve brought to both The Other Palace Studio and Omnibus Theatre as a work in progress.

I’m also pondering several new ideas for 2026 — including KILN, set during the Earl of Rone festival in Combe Martin, and DIREST CRUELTY, exploring the impact of Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth on women over time — and have some exciting collaborations coming up!