Paula B Stanic
Paula grew up in Manor Park, East London and has worked for theatre companies and spaces around the country. She's been a writer-on-attachment - Soho Theatre and the NT Studio. She won the 2008 Alfred Fagon Award, 2010 Adrienne Benham and was a finalist for the 2021 Women's Prize for Playwriting. Paula was part of the 2016-2017 Drama Room at BBC Writersroom, on the BBC New Talent Hotlist and part of Screen Yorkshire's 2022 Flex 2 Talent Lab. She is the 2023 Roland Rees Bursary recipient.
London (Greater London)
Agent: Madeleine Cotter, WGM Atlantic Group UK/ US,
5 Chancery Lane,
Holborn,
London WC2A 1LG
Email: madeleine@wgmatlanticgroup.co.uk
Call: +44 (0) 203 6372064
5 Chancery Lane,
Holborn,
London WC2A 1LG
Email: madeleine@wgmatlanticgroup.co.uk
Call: +44 (0) 203 6372064
Current Work - DISSONANCE, (Paines Plough/ RWCMD, NEW'24 Festival), TRACKS New Light Theater Project & Writers room at Stockroom Productions (working on an idea by Georgia Crowther with Lilly Driscoll & Georgia Crowther).
Selected Commissioned & Produced Writing Work
2023 Night Shift Zoo Co Theatre Directors: Flo O'Mahony & Brian Duffy, Stanley Arts Centre
2022 A Promise (a teen Windrush story) Prime Theatre Company, Director Mark Powell. (touring)
2019/ 20 Messiah - co-writer with Jesse Briton & Bear Trap Theatre Co, Director: Jesse Briton, (Touring 2019 - 2020)
2018 Miss World... 1970 - Podcast play (Peer Productions) Director: Rebecca Alloway
2016 A Disconnect – Acts Of Defiance, (Mama Quilla) Theatre 503, Director: Sue Dunderdale
2016 Scenes from a young life –Almeida Projects (Almeida) Director: Rachel Bagshaw
2015 Steering Through Stars (tour SW England) Tangle, Director: Anna Coombs
2013 Blair’s Children co-written with April de Angelis, Georgia Fitch, Mark Norfolk & Anders Lustgarten, (Cockpit Theatre) Director: Charlie Westenra
2011 Under a Foreign Sky Theatre Centre, (Unicorn Theatre & National tour) Director: Natalie Wilson
2011 Beginnings 20 minute plays written with/ for young actors (Islington Community Theatre/ Company 3), Pleasance Theatre, Director: Ned Glasier.
2011 A Drop to Drink (“Tone La Maji Ya Kunywa”) Tangle, The National Theatre Studio/ Soho Theatre, Director: Anna Coombs
2009 6 Minutes - Everything Must Go, (Soho Theatre) Director: Lisa Goldman
2009 Monday Headlined the Emerge New Works Festival, Leeds, (Red Ladder Theatre Co) Director: Daniel Bye (Short-listed for the 2009 John Whiting Award)
2009 Pancras Boys Club co-written with David Watson & Ben Musgrave (Only Connect) Director: Maggie Norris.
Staged Readings - WHAT’S LOST winner of Alfred Fagon Award, Royal Court (Jerwood Theatre Downstairs) Director: Natalie Ibu & UP Theater Company (dead of winter readings) NYC, Director: James Bosley. TRACKS, Zoo TV, Zoo Theatres Festival, Director Jo Newman & Theatre Row, NYC, Director: Sarah Norris.
Currently developing work for Stage & Screen. 2024
Books, Film, Radio, Television, Theatre