Playwright/Screenwriter


AGENT’S WEBSITE
Georgina Ruffhead [email protected]

Memberships: The Writers Guild of Great Britain, Equity and Fellow of Higher Education Academy

EDUCATION

BBC Writers Scheme (Casualty)
July – October 2026
Curtis Brown Creative
September – December 2025
BBC Voices – Writing For Television
January – June 2025
Faber Academy, London – Writing A Novel
September 2024 – March 2025
Goldsmith University – Postgraduate Certificate in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance
September 2021 – August 2022
National Theatre – Advanced Playwriting Group
January 2020 – May 2020

PRODUCED WORKS

Stage

FERAL THREADS (2026)
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama/New Diorama
Director: Patricia Logue

HOT CHICKS (2025)
Sherman Theatre/Grand Ambition
Director: Hannah Noone
Published by Methuen Drama
★★★★ The Guardian and The Stage
The Stage’s Top Shows in the UK 2025

WELCOME TO BETTYLAND (2024)
London Academy of Dramatic Art
Director: Tristan Fynn Aiduenu

MAD MARGOT (June 2023)
Sherman Theatre/Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Director: Jac Ifan Moore
RIGHT WHERE WE LEFT US (2022)
Chippy Lane Productions/Chapter
Director: Chelsey Gillard
Published by Methuen Drama
★★★★ Buzz Magazine

LITTLE EMBER (2021)
Theatr Clwyd
Director: Tamara Harvey

BLUE (2019) *credited as ‘created by’
Chippy Lane Productions/Chapter
Director: Chelsey Gillard
Published by Methuen Drama
★★★★ The Guardian


Screen/Broadcast

BETTY CAMPBELL DOCUMENTARY (2024)
S4C/Fire Flame
Director: Rhys Powys
Credited as screenwriter

WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT

Work with production dates:

THE DARK I SWIM (2026)
Francesca Moody Productions/ Theatr Clwyd/Shedinburgh/Young Vic/Sherman Theatre
Director: Kate Wasserberg

MACBETH a [re] imagining
(2027) *Credited as ‘Additional Material & Dramaturgy’
Sherman Theatre/Craidd Cymru
Director: Francesca Goodridge

QUEEN IN ALL BUT NAME (2028)
Theatr Clwyd
Director: Kate Wasserberg

In development:

SECOND STAR MOTEL (Stage)
Chippy Lane Productions Ltd./Theatr Clwyd
Director: Hannah Noone

FULL OUT (Television)
Created and written by Rebecca Jade Hammond & Tanya Reynolds

THE WORLD’S DIFFERENT NOW (Stage)
Chippy Lane Productions
Director: Jac Ifan Moore

DON’T BE CRUEL (Television)
In development with BBC Voices

THESE UNFINISHED THINGS (Debut Fiction Novel)
In development with CAA

HIT ZERO (Short Film)
In development with Lushkin Films

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize (Short-listed, 2025)
Bruntwood Writing Prize (Long-listed, 2025)
Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award (Long-listed, 2024)
Royal Shakespeare Company 37 Plays (Long-listed 2023)
Papatango Playwriting Award (Short-listed, 2021)
Originals Playwriting Award (Short-listed, 2022)
Verity Bargate (Top 10%, 2022)
BBC Writersroom (Top 9%, 2024 | Top 10%, 2021)
Traverse Theatre Writing Award (Long-listed, 2020)
Theatre Uncut & Traverse Theatre (Long-listed, 2020)
Finalist, Raindance Festival (2017)
Winner, Miami Web Fest (2017)

Grants & Bursaries

Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award (Recipient, 2020 & 2022)
Theatr Clwyd Micro Bursaries (Recipient, 2020)
The Carne Trust Funding (2019 – 2026)

LITERARY

Literary Reader – Hampstead Theatre (2019-2022)
Writing Facilitator – Welsh Female Writers Group, Chippy Lane Productions (2019-Present)
Consulting Dramaturg – Young Playwright’s Programme, Sherman Theatre (2022-2025)

Access Note: I am partially deaf, wear a hearing aid, and sometimes require additional support.