About me

I am a playwright and journalist based in Oxford. I have had short plays produced at the Southwark Playhouse, Putney Arts Centre and The Space, and my debut full-length play, Look Who's All Grown Up, ran for a week at The Space as part of their Foreword Festival. My most recent play was longlisted for the Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award. I write character-led plays that take a blackly humorous approach to serious themes.

My Plays

Fuck The Patriarchy


Synopsis:

A black comedy about white feminism.

BRYONY desperately tries to modernise the feminist website she works for when the website's Boomer founder makes transphobic comments. It soon becomes clear that Bryony's own brand of feminism is not as inclusive as she likes to think.


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 76


Location: An office


Key Words: Feminism, transgender, gender identity, black identity, comedy, queer, LGBTQ+


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Longlisted for BOLD Playwrights 2022


Reviews:

Look Who's All Grown Up


Synopsis:

Child actors FELIX and CAITLIN have just turned 18. When they meet at an event they begin a budding friendship as they navigate the damage that coming-of-age in the public eye has done to their psyches and their sexual identities.

When the whole world has an opinion on who you are and how you look, how can you discover what you really want?


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 81


Location: A walled garden, an airport lounge


Key Words: coming of age, sexuality, friendship, abuse, mental health, young people


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Won a full production through ScriptSpace at The Space. Longlisted for development by Traverse Theatre


Reviews:

'A well formed play that would not feel out of place if it were transferred to a larger venue tomorrow.' - Everything Theatre, 4 stars

'Chandler succinctly distills the inner turmoil that men can experience when society’s idea of masculinity is violated by their sexual abuse... Look Who’s All Grown Up is a very accomplished piece of new writing about a much-discussed topic, done in a thoughtful and acerbic way.' - A Younger Theatre, 3 stars

'Look Who’s All Grown up is carefully constructed to ease you into this headspace, and so when things become heated or awkward, you feel it in your gut, yet cannot look away.' - Get The Chance, 4 stars


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Testing, Testing


Synopsis:

The play tracks VEE and JAMIE through every pregnancy test that they take throughout their relationship, from the early days of hoping for a negative, through to the slog of longing for a positive.


Number of Characters: 2


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 65


Location: Various bathrooms/toilets


Key Words: Relationships, fertility, infertility, love, pregnancy


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. Longlisted for ScriptSpace at The Space. Selected for dramaturgical support by The Reader's Room at the King's Head Theatre.


Reviews:

'It's such a lean and loveable piece of work, and you handle the locational conceit at its centre with real wit and deftness; congratulations on writing something both formally smart, and full of richly human feeling.' - National Theatre feedback on the script

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Abigail Chandler
@ abigailchandler

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Oxford

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