Fiona Padfield

She produced, wrote and acted in her one woman show DESERTION: The Love Letters of Ka Cox and Rupert Brooke at the Peterhouse Theatre, Cambridge. Following this, STRIP was produced by the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by Peter James. She then studied for a year on David Edgar’s MA in Playwriting where she began SNAPSHOTS which was staged in the main house at the Manchester Royal Exchange, directed by Braham Murray. She was invited to attend a BBC Sparks Weekend and wrote The Enclosure for Radio 3, The wire.

In 2000 she won a Wingate Scholarship for her play The Millennium Tapestry. She has received commissions from Hampstead Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Carlton Warner Sisters and was selected to write a film with CYFLE/BBC/S4C Academy. Fiona is published by Oberon Books, Bloomsbury, Tangerine and Casa Forte Press.

She is currently developing Allegation 21 which will go into R&D at Greenwich Theatre, main house October 2026. Her play Lovedale kicks off on a 9 theatre tour of East Anglia, spring 2027.  Strip Revival will run for 2 weeks at the Pleasance, London May 27 as part of the 30th Anniversary Celebrations.  She is taking The Sea is A Magic Carpet to the Us Summer 27.  She is currently working on a HORROR.

She regularly runs extracts of work in progress at the WGGB scratch nights, Studio Two, Norwich Theatre.