My Reading Lists

Female Playwrights

  • Seven Methods to Kill Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones
  • Glory Dazed by Kat Jones
  • I’m A Phoenix Bitch by Bryony Kimmings
  • Scenes with Girls by Miriam Batye
  • Mosquitos by Lucy Kirkwood
  • Pavilion by Emily White
  • Dust by Milly Thomas 
  • Coconut by Guleraana Mir
  • My Mum’s A Twat by Anouska Warden 
  • The Flick by Annie Baker 
  • Does My Bomb Look Big In This by Nyla Levy
  • The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
  • Posh by Laura Wade 
  • Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler 
  • The Effect by Lucy Prebble 
  • Art by Yasmina Reza
  • Hang by Debbie Tucker Green 
  • That Face by Polly Stenham 
  • How I learned to Drive by Paula Vogel 
  • Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch 
  • The Writer by Ella Hickson 
  • Tribes by Nina Raine
  • Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery 
  • The Machinal by Sophie Treadwell 
  • The Mountaintop by Katori Hall 
  • This Wide Night by Chloe Moss
  • Pop by Anna Jordan
  • Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm 
  • White Boy by Tanika Gupta 
  • Contemporary Welsh Plays by Methuen Drama
  • White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King
  • BLASTED by Sarah Kane
  • Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
  • A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney
  • Fairview by Jackie Sibblies
  • A Kind Of People by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
  • Armadillo by Sarah Kosar
  • John by Annie Baker 
  • The Acid Test by Anya Reiss

Writing Resources

  1. Secret Life of Plays by Steve Waters 
  2. How Plays Work by David Edgar 
  3. Into the woods by John Yorke
  4. Playwriting by Stephen Jeffreys 
  5. Being A Playwright by Chris Foxon & George Turvey 
  6. #FEMALEWRITERSLIST bit.ly/2HX3vU3
  7. The Blunt Playwright by Clem Martini

Traverse Theatre Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/traverse-theatre/id460345357

Nick Herne Books Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-nhb-playgroup-q-a-podcast/id1515768292

Royal Court Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/royal-court-playwrights-podcast/id1184837130