Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.

Still a few more hours to go!

🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective! We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with @bcltuea.bsky.social.

Come and see the work in development of our amazing UEA Scriptwriters next week at the Garage in Norwich: ueascriptwritingma.substack.com

Come and work with us at UEA

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk

Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!

Loved writing this for the Guardian about trying to pass on my Iraqi Jewish food heritage to my son. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...

Great evening! Can't wait to read it Samantha!

Last night at the Audio Drama Awards, the BBC announced a 90-min monthly play slot on Radio 4 It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama Thanks to our members who joined the campaign Our response 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...

📣UEA UCU Day of Action: Join us from 8am outside AHB on Weds 26th. 🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy. 🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students. 🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA. ✊Join us. #SaveUEA

Really love this weeks Start The Week with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @samanthaellis.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah, on food, soil, migration, and memory www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Clare has been a force of nature in the East and she will be sorely missed around here. I couldn't be more grateful to her for her support and friendship over the past few years. She and the whole @hightidetheatre.bsky.social team have been a dream to work with. The NT are lucky to have her!

An important piece in today’s Observer from Katie Hims on why cuts to audio drama are so damaging - to writers, audiences and the wider cultural ecosystem in the UK We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Sickening and wicked provocation. Normalizing ethnic cleansing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The Geneva Convention (which the US has ratified) forbids the permanent and forcible removal of citizens from their homes.

And Komola Collective's beautiful production and tour of my play INDIGO GIANT: www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.

Some things from 2024... A wonderful R&D working on my @artscouncilengland.bsky.social- funded adaptation of LP Hartley's exquisite THE GO-BETWEEN with Eastern Angles, Norwich Theatre Royal, St George's Great Yarmouth and @karengoddard.bsky.social norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/wor...

Dipping my toe in the BlueSky... Hello.