About

I’m a playwright and dramaturg of mixed Irish, English and Sri Lankan descent from Combe Martin, working in London and across the South West. I’m drawn to stories that balance humour and darkness, and aim to create politically charged work that often blends elements of absurdism, magical realism and folklore. 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 both The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2024 and The Ilfeld Prize 2025. As a playwright, I was also longlisted for The Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting 2024.

From 2024–26, I was a Mentored Writer on Paines Plough’s Tour the Writer programme. I developed my 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.

FIRST GRAVEDIGGER made the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025 Longlist, and underwent further development on their Future Light programme, with dramaturgical support from Ria Parry.

Currently, I’m writing two solo shows. WOLVES is a coming-of-age story about 22nd Century witches performed by Liv Koplick. So far, we’ve brought extracts to The Other Palace Studio, Omnibus Theatre and A Pleasance Scratch ahead of a full-length WIP sharing and a run early next year. KILN, written for Ghostlight Productions, is a story of belonging set against the backdrop of the Earl of Rone festival in Combe Martin, where I’m from. It will be performed at Exeter Northcott’s Elevate Festival in November.

My next project is JACKDAW FIELD, an epic folk horror set on the Jackdaw gas platform in the North Sea.