Featured Playwright

Martina Cohen
About Me: Queer & ethnically Jewish writer-Performer specialising in comedy-drama with distinct and unique character voices. Currently in development: - JUPITER TOOTHPASTE (dir. Sasha Regan, Co-Producer James Pearson (Pearson Theatre Productions, Casting Dir. Pearson Casting CDG). This show previewed at the Union Theatre in October 2024 with a great audience reception. We have this recorded and are now looking for either: TV producers/commissioners to attach, theatre producers to attach or fund, or funding opportunities. This show is a queer-focussed and female led comedy-drama centred around world's first mum vlogger and her now adult daughter who is severely agoraphobic and mentally unwell. - EPITOME/YOUTH - short film in dev. Queer awakening/romance coming of age with a hint of comedy and and drama. - BOYFRIEND MATERIAL - an eight person narrative play centring around three different romantic/sexual relationships and how they progress through the characters lives. - MESHUGGENEH - a two person play about medical negligence, health anxiety/hypochondria, sex - and how all of these can intermingle. - FANG1RL - a serial drama TV Series focussed around a young woman who intersects herself into her idols life. A twisted social commentary on celebrity culture, idolisation, and fangirl culture. - WOLF WHISTLE - Psychological thriller around a female cannibal who kills and eats the men that are rude to her. Currently seeking literary representation, or writer-performer representation.
Featured Play
Welcome to Paradise
An Albanian teenager is lured to the UK and trafficked into prostitution in Sheffield, she fights back against all the odds to escape and exact vengeance, but there are unintended tragic consequences.

Playwright: Ian Brumpton