While You Lie

About Sam Holcroft

Sam Holcroft is a playwright winner of the Windham Campbell Prize for Literature. Her plays include: A Mirror (Almeida Theatre London 2023; West End 2024); Rules for Living (National Theatre London 2015); The Wardrobe for National Theatre Connections; Edgar & Annabel part of the Double Feature season in the Paintframe at the National Theatre; Dancing Bears part of the Charged season for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival; While You Lie at the Traverse Edinburgh; Pink part of the Women Power and Politics season at the Tricycle; Vanya adapted from Chekhov at The Gate; and Cockroach co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse (nominated for Best New Play 2008 by the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award 2009). In 2013 she wrote The House Taken Over a libretto for opera adapted from Cortázar for the Festival dAix-en-Provence and Académie Européenne de Musique. She received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009 was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre 200910 and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 201314. In 2014 she received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.