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Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: The Children (Royal Court Theatre, 2016); Chimerica (Almeida Theatre & West End, 2013; winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2013 Evening Standard Best Play Award, the 2014 Critics' Circle Best New Play Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); NSFW (Royal Court, 2012); small hours (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Beauty and the Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre, 2010); Bloody Wimmin, as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre, 2010); it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break & Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the 2012 John Whiting Award); Hedda (Gate Theatre, London, 2008); and Tinderbox (Bush Theatre, 2008). She won the inaugural Berlin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.
Steve Waters is a Professor of Scriptwriting at UEA. His many plays include Limehouse, Temple, Little Platoons, The Contingency Plan, Fast Labour, and World Music, all of which are published by Nick Hern Books. His adaptation of the novel The Last King of Scotland by fellow UEA Professor Giles Foden premiered at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre in 2019. His most recent work for radio, Song of the Reed, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2021. Before joining UEA he ran the MPhil(B) in Playwriting Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has written about playwriting in The Secret Life of Plays (2010) and A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made a Playwright (2021), as well as writing for radio and television, and has adapted The Contingency Plan for the screen for Film4 and Cowboy Pictures.
We invite you to open your imagination and take a journey through twenty bold, inventive, and moving stories from the writers of UEA’s 2025 MA Scriptwriting cohort. Across family kitchens and monster-infested forests, space cafés and strange rivers that steal memories, these pieces explore what it means to love, to grieve, to dream, to fail, and to connect—however messily. Within these pages you’ll find unexpected road trips, a birthday dinner full of unspoken truths, explosive art installations, a Jenga game that mirrors a relationship’s collapse, and a playground military coup masterminded by fourth graders. You’ll witness golden retrievers sipping coffee with aliens, security guards bonding over wordplay, talking motivational fish, and swans sparking viral scandals in the age of AI. From tangled situationships to family fallouts, career callings to moral dilemmas, failed robberies to misguided murder, this anthology touches the surreal, the intimate, and the utterly unexpected—with heart, wit, and guts. Featuring an introduction by scriptwriter and course director Steve Waters, and a foreword by acclaimed playwright Lucy Kirkwood, this collection showcases twenty emerging voices finding their power on the page—and giving us all a glimpse of what stories can be.
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Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: The Children (Royal Court Theatre, 2016); Chimerica (Almeida Theatre & West End, 2013; winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2013 Evening Standard Best Play Award, the 2014 Critics' Circle Best New Play Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); NSFW (Royal Court, 2012); small hours (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Beauty and the Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre, 2010); Bloody Wimmin, as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre, 2010); it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break & Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the 2012 John Whiting Award); Hedda (Gate Theatre, London, 2008); and Tinderbox (Bush Theatre, 2008). She won the inaugural Berlin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.
Steve Waters is a Professor of Scriptwriting at UEA. His many plays include Limehouse, Temple, Little Platoons, The Contingency Plan, Fast Labour, and World Music, all of which are published by Nick Hern Books. His adaptation of the novel The Last King of Scotland by fellow UEA Professor Giles Foden premiered at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre in 2019. His most recent work for radio, Song of the Reed, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2021. Before joining UEA he ran the MPhil(B) in Playwriting Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has written about playwriting in The Secret Life of Plays (2010) and A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made a Playwright (2021), as well as writing for radio and television, and has adapted The Contingency Plan for the screen for Film4 and Cowboy Pictures.