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Bea Roberts is a multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter and script doctor from the west country. Most known for her comedy-drama writing, Bea is drawn to dark humour, rural stories, folk horror, weirdos and mischief.
Most recently, Bea has written on BBC 1’s flagship soap EastEnders and is developing screen work with Disney+, BBC Studios, Firebird Pictures and Hartswood Films. She is represented by Jessica Cooper at Curtis Brown. For more information please visit www.bearobertswriter.com
Early work:
In 2014 Bea’s play And Then Come The Nightjars won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, made her a Finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was adapted into a feature film with director Paul Robinson. The movie won Best Independent Film at the Chichester International Film Festival and was picked as one of Rolling Stone UK’s Top 23 Films of 2023.
Her next project, the one-woman/no-woman show Infinity Pool: A modern re-telling of Madame Bovary had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, was nominated for a Total Theatre award and was optioned by Hartswood Films. Bea’s modern feminist adaptation of Little Mermaid won Best Play for Children & Young People at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards.
Other writing credits include utopian eco-comedy Loam (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in association with the Royal Court), The Borrowers (Tobacco Factory Theatres) and, most recently, Ivy Tiller; Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer starring Fleabag’s Jenny Rainsford, part of the Mischief Festival series from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Bea was also a writer on attachment to the National Theatre Studio and commissioned to develop new comedy, Director’s Cut, with director Nancy Medina for the Lyttleton Theatre. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the George Devine Playwriting Award.
In addition to her writing work, Bea also works as a dramaturg and script doctor across stage and screen, most notably with The Wardrobe Ensemble on their award winning shows The Last of the Pelican Daughters and Education, Education, Education.
For more information on Bea’s script doctor services please visit www.bearobertswriter.com
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Curtis Brown
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2024
EastEnders
(TX June & November)
Folk Horror (confidential)
(Play in development – Bristol Old Vic Theatre)
The Whitby Rebels
(Stephen Joseph Theatre)
The Borrowers
(Revival – The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster)
Period drama (confidential)
(TV Series in development – Firebird Pictures)
Thriller series (confidential)
(TV Series in development – BBC Studios)
2023
BBC Writers’ Academy
(2022-2023 Cohort)
Chicken
(TV pilot commission – BBC Studios)
And Then Come The Nightjars
(Feature film cinema & streaming release – Finite Films)
2022
Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer
(The Royal Shakespeare Company – Mischief Festival)
2021
This Cult Ate My Mum
(TV pilot commission – New Pictures)
Curse of the Crackles! The Great Audio Caper
(Shoreditch Town Hall – online)
Wasp Woman the Musical
(In development)
2020
Director’s Cut
(The National Theatre – Lyttleton Commission from 2019 – Cancelled in 2020)
The Reluctant Dragon
(The Egg Theatre – seed commission)
2019
Catfishing
(TV pilot commission – Hartswood Films)
Sir F. Mother-F***king Drake
(‘My England’ project Short Film – Young Vic Films)
NEW Festival 2019: Loam
(Royal Court Theatre & Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)
2018
The Borrowers
(Tobacco Factory Theatres – Christmas 2018)
2017
National Theatre Studio – Writer on Attachment
(2017 – 2018)
Little Mermaid
(Pins and Needles Productions at The Egg Theatre)
Infinity Pool
(Tour – Plymouth Theatre Royal / Oxford Northwall / Tobacco Factory Bristol / Brewhouse Taunton)
Awards
George Devine Playwriting Award Finalist 2023
‘Best Independent Film’ Chichester International Film Festival Winner 2023
‘Best Show for Children and Young People’ UK Theatre Awards Winner 2018
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist 2016
‘Emerging Talent’ Total Theatre Awards Nominated 2016
‘JB Priestley Award’ Royal Literary Fund Winner 2015
Theatre503 International Playwriting Award Winner 2014
