Featured Playwright
Emily White
About Me: Emily is a Nottinghamshire native currently residing in London and has been a writer and journalist for almost seven years. She started her career as a local news reporter writing about the issues impacting underrepresented communities in Lincolnshire and now currently works as a news and investigations reporter for MoneySavingExpert.com; having won several awards, including Headline Money's Rising Star of the Year, for her investigative work. Despite always having a deep love for theatre and creative writing, Emily only turned her hand to playwriting last year and was selected to be part of this year's Fifth Word Playwrights cohort. She hopes to finish her first play 'What If...', a comedy-drama about a young woman who uses maladaptive daydreaming as a way to cope with her OCD, with the guidance of the Fifth Word group this year.
Featured Play
Branded Goods
Two sex-trafficked young migrant women try to deal with their situation as captives in a brothel in an unspecified UK city, overseen by an older woman who - we discover - was once a sex worker herself. All the women in different ways have suffered at the hands of the smooth operator male brothel owner. The play not only explores issues around sex trafficking, sex work generally and societal attitudes towards migrants, but also puts various twists into the changing relationships between its core characters. The action, meanwhile, builds towards a desperate opportunity for the women to escape - but at deadly cost.
Playwright: Norman Miller