Anita Sullivan

Region: South East

About / Bio

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

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 40 hours of drama broadcast on BBC Radio 4 & 3.


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Genres

Books
Radio
Short story
Theatre

Writing hours

Audio writing hours: 30

Writer's credits

Recent work and highlights:

  • Red Gold. Original drama about the infected blood scandal. Radio 4 2025
  • Girl of the Sea of Cortez, adapted from Peter Benchley. Radio Drama award winner. 2025
  • The Mosquito. Original R4 drama/Wellcome Trust. A mosquito disrupts a COP conference. 2024
  • Silos. Original five part serial about human hibernation and climate change. 2024
  • Model Village. Little People rebel. Touring 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. Serial for Hardy’s Women season, available on CD box set. 2022.
  • Heart of Darkness. Radical adaptation. 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.  Featuring Wally Funk 2014
  • An Angel at my Table. Serial adapted from Janet Frame’s autobiography. Radio Drama Award Winner 2013
  • The Last Breath. Groundbreaking 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.

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