Ming Ho

Ming writes for stage, screen, and audio.  Her play, The Things We Never Said (BBC Radio 4; featuring Siân Phillips and Lia Williams), won WGGB Best Radio Drama Award, 2018. Her UK premiére dramatisation, Kira, from the novella Kira Georgievna by Viktor Nekrasov, aired on BBC Radio 4 on 2 April 2023, and her two-part dramatisation of A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin went out on R4 in November/December 2023 and is available on BBC Sounds.

Other credits include EastEnders, Casualty (BBC TV); Heartbeat,The Bill (ITV); comedy drama Riot Girls: Male Order(BBC R4), and commissions for LAMDA, RADA, Leeds Playhouse and Theatr Clwyd.

Of Chinese/Welsh heritage, Ming wrote Citizens of Nowhere? for Chinese Arts Now (Southbank Centre & Edinburgh Fringe), exploring roots and identity in Brexit Britain. Its central character, aspiring Tory politician Jane Lo, inspired short film British People, commissioned as part of The Uncertain Kingdom anthology (BFIPlayer, Amazon, iTunes, Curzon Home, GooglePlay, 2020).  She wrote short play Nine Point Two Minutes for Theatr Clwyd's Curtain Up post-lockdown reopening season, August 2021.

Ming has also worked in TV drama development, script editing series such as Hamish Macbeth (BBC) and co-creating detective drama McCready and Daughter for Ecosse Films/BBC Northern Ireland.  Her play, Exhumation, written on the Royal Court Theatre Writers’ Group, was workshopped there with director Lucy Morrison. In 2019, she was Writer in Residence at Theatr Clwyd, which sponsored her on Sphinx Theatre's Sphinx 30 programme 2020-21, a main stage play seed commission.

Inspired by her experience with her late mother, who lived for over twenty years with dementia, she authored the blog (Dementia Just Ain't) Sexy, and writes, speaks, and campaigns on dementia and carer issues.



London (Greater London)



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A Many-Splendoured Thing, starring Chipo Chung and Billy Howle (2 x 57', BBC Radio 4, 2023; available on BBC Sounds)

Kira, starring Sharon Small and Sandy Grierson (BBC Radio 4, April 2023)

Nine Point Two Minutes (Curtain Up, Theatr Clwyd, 2021)

British People (The Uncertain Kingdom Volume 1: BFIPlayer, Amazon, iTunes, Curzon Home, GooglePlay, 2020)

Cancelled (LAMDA, release deferred due to Covid-19)

Twenty-Four Hours (LAMDA, 2019)

Citizens of Nowhere? (Chinese Arts Now/Beijing 707N Theatre, Southbank Centre/Duddell's London, Edinburgh Fringe, 2018-19)

Hamari Yaadain/Our Memories (Leeds Playhouse & community tour, March 2018)

Riot Girls: Male Order, starring Belinda Lang, Lino Facioli, and Carolyn Pickles (BBC R4, February 2018)

The Things We Never Said, starring Siân Phillips and Lia Williams (BBC R4, May 2017; Best Radio Drama, WGGB Awards 2018)

Schlaf Nicht (LAMDA, 2018)

Casualty (BBC)

EastEnders (BBC)

Heartbeat (ITV)

The Bill (ITV)

McCready & Daughter (format co-creator) (BBC)

Film, Radio, Television, Theatre

The Things We Never Said can be downloaded from BBCWritersroom Script Library:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/scripts/radio-drama/the-things-we-never-said

A Many-Splendoured Thing (Parts 1 & 2) can be heard on BBC Sounds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001str6

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t3b2

Riot Girls: Male Order can be heard on BBC Sounds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ry6jt

Various episodes of Classic EastEnders can currently be seen via links on blog (Minghowriter website) above, along with LAMDA short films and other YouTube clips.