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 group 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.

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 from Fragile House 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 (Les Misérables) and Adam Wadge (Stick Man).

Fragile House has since been shortlisted for The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2024 and longlisted for The Ilfeld Prize 2025. I’ve also been longlisted for The Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting, the inaugural Women in Theatre Lab, and Tara Theatre’s NOVA Seed Commissions 2024/25 for other work including my climate dystopia reverse chronology play Wet Bulb.

More recently, I took part in a Theatre503 Rapid Write Response with my piece Short Bones, a short magical realist play written in response to Ruth D’Silva’s Bungalow.

Currently, I’m a Mentored Writer on Paines Plough’s Tour the Writer programme, in the Landmark Theatres North Devon cohort. I’m developing my new 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.