Anita Sullivan

Writing includes radio drama, site-specific theatre, podcasts, animation and interactive video.

All of my 60+ commissioned plays have been staged/ filmed/ broadcast, many with revised productions and tours. Several have won awards. I've had over 30 hours of drama broadcast on BBC Radio 4 & 3.


South East



Recent work and highlights:

  • Silos. Original five part serial about human hibernation and climate change. 2024

  • Model Village. Touring show for New Perspectives Theatre 50th anniversary. 2023

  • End of Transmission. Original drama. Winner of Tinniswood Award, Best Audio Drama, and Writers Guild Award finalist 2023.

  • Two on a Tower. Two part serial for Hardy's Women season, available on CD box set. 2022.

  • Heart of Darkness. Rebroadcast 2024 with Opening Lines interview. 2021.

  • Moon. Five part series for Apollo 11 anniversary, drama using NASA transcripts. 2019.

  • Ropewalk House. Original Radio 3 drama about an infinite building.  2019.

  • Ring. Adapted from Koji Suzuki's novel for Fright Night. Broadcast with Listen in the Dark event 2015.

  • Mercury 13. Original documentary drama about the women who passed NASA astronaut selection tests in the 1960's.  2014

  • An Angel at my Table. Two part serial. Adapted from Janet Frame's autobiography. 2013

  • The Last Breath. Original improvised documentary drama about the exhibition of an artist's dying breath. 2013

  • Torchwood audio dramas. 'Asylum' was broadcast in 2008. Available on BBC box set.


Please see my website for a complete list of works and awards, with script excerpts.

Books, Radio, Short story, Theatre

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