Women, Power and Politics: Now: Five plays

About Bola AgbajeJoy WilkinsonSam HolcroftSue TownsendVariousZinnie Harris

Joy Wilkinson is a playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: The Sweet Science of Bruising (Southwark Playhouse 2018); Acting Leader (part of Women Power and Politics season at the Tricycle Theatre London in 2010); Fair (Finborough Theatre 2005; Trafalgar Studios West End 2006); and Felt Effects (joint winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award staged at Theatre503 London 2006). She has been a Screen International Star of Tomorrow a two-time Brit List nominee one of Den Of Geeks 50 Brilliant Screenwriters To Watch Out For and she was mentored by Sir Kenneth Branagh on the prestigious BFI/Lighthouse Guiding Lights scheme. Zinnie Harris is a playwright and theatre director whose work has been staged by the National Theatre the RSC and the Traverse amongst others. Bola Agbaje's plays have been seen at the Royal Court Theatre Hampstead Theatre and the Young Vic amongst others. Her debut play Gone Too Far! won the 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. 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. Sue Townsend (2 April 1946 10 April 2014) was an English novelist and playwright best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books.