Femme Fatale

About Polly Wiseman

Polly was born in Sussex and at 18 moved to London to train as an actor at RADA. She quickly realised that most of the roles for women were shit and decided to write some plays where they got more of the fun stuff. She became a member of the Royal Court Young Writers programme who produced her short play Trying It On (also adapted for BBC TV). She has been Writer-On-Attachment for Birmingham Rep Theatre Absolute and Theatre Royal Margate. Polly co-founded Fireraisers Theatre Company which The Guardian called 'one of the great hopes of modern British Theatre'. A million years ago she was a style journalist for i-D magazine The Evening Standard and various others. And for a while she worked as 'Door Whore' Polly Vinyl at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. She lives in East London.