Hi! I’m Tash.

I’m a UK-based playwright and scriptwriter. I’m part of the Royal Court’s Invitation Group 2023-24 and have been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting.

I began my writing career after winning a place on the National Youth Theatre/Shine TV Drama playwright development programme, ‘Write to Shine’, co-authoring a play for the NYT Rep Company at the Old Vic Tunnels. I was subsequently commissioned to develop a full-length play for the National Youth Theatre’s ‘Playing Up’ initiative. The resulting play, MOONFRUIT, was produced at the Unicorn Theatre. I’ve continued my work with young people ever since, and in 2022 I was a writer and facilitator on the Royal Court’s SW1 Project.

My 2020 play WHEN THE SEA SWALLOWS US WHOLE was produced at the VAULT Festival and shortlisted for the VAULT Origins Award. I’ve been part of Chichester Festival Theatre’s Young Playwrights collective and twice won the Gold Award for Best Scripted Programming at the BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Awards. 

My work has been brought to life in venues across London and Edinburgh including Royal Court, Rich Mix, Rose Theatre, Chiswick Playhouse, Tristan Bates Studio and Old Red Lion Theatre and my writing has been praised as “off-kilter, brilliant and brave” (BBC Student Radio Awards) with “female characters who really zing” (What’s On Stage) from “a writer who knows how to turn a vivid phrase” (Lyn Gardner). By day, I work at Penguin Books.

Full-Length Plays:

  • Eleven at Night Somewhere Without You (Longlisted, Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023)

  • With Striplights Hung From the Stars (Longlisted, Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2022)

  • When the Sea Swallows Us Whole, VAULT Festival, dir. Beth Kapila, 2020 (Shortlisted, Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020; Shortlisted, VAULT Origins Award)

  • Snowbird, Tristan Bates Theatre, dir. Matt Harrison, 2013

  • Please Wait Patiently, Chiswick Playhouse, dir. Matt Harrison, 2012

  • Moonfruit, National Youth Theatre @ Unicorn Theatre, dir. Cathy Owen, 2012

Short Plays include:

  • Mary-Ann Says, for the Royal Court’s Living Archive, 2024

  • SW1 Project, Royal Court Theatre, dir. Grace Gummer, 2023

  • A Loveletter from the Time of Borderism to the Time of Nuclear Fallout, South-East Regional Tour, 2019 (Winner, Horsham District Year of Culture Playwriting Award)

  • Gorgeous Like Something with Antlers, South-East Regional Tour, 2019 (Winner, Horsham District Year of Culture Playwriting Award)

  • Love or IKEA, Chelsea Theatre, 2018

  • The Night Before We Left Home, Chelsea Theatre, 2018

  • The Launch, Tabard Theatre, 2017

  • Architect, Rich Mix, 2014

  • Saint, Old Red Lion Theatre, 2014

  • The Sea Wall, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2012

For Radio:

  • Flamenco Feet, Winner - Gold Award for Best Scripted Programming, BBC Student Radio Awards 2010

  • Shapes, Bronze Award for Best Scripted Programming, BBC Student Radio Awards 2010

  • Slow Hands, Winner - Gold Award for Best Scripted Programming, BBC Student Radio Awards 2009