About / Bio
Paula grew up in Manor Park, East London and has worked for theatre companies and spaces around the country and abroad. She’s been a writer-on-attachment – Soho Theatre and the National Theatre 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, part of Screen Yorkshire’s 2022 Flex 2 Talent Lab and the 2023 Roland Rees Recipient. She is a BAFTA Connect member.
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Agent contact details
Agent: Madeleine Cotter, WGM Atlantic Talent Group UK/ US,
17 Hanover Square,
Mayfair,
London W1S 1BN
Email: [email protected]
Call: +44 (0)208 44 1539
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Please contact agent – Madeleine Cotter at WGM Atlantic Group for any samples.
Writer's credits
Current Work – Creative Partner/ Co-writer at We Are Origin Productions with Makalla McPherson. Slate of projects for TV and film.
Selected Commissioned & Produced Writing Work
2024 TRACKS New Light Theatre Company, New York, Directors Sarah Norris & Tabitha Gayle. New Light, New Voices Award 2024 (Previews – Pendragon Theater, transfer 59E59, Off-Broadway)
2024 Dissonance Paines Plough & RWCMD, Director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, Young Vic.
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