Molly Barnes-Tate was born and raised in the North-East. A ‘writer’ of some description from an early age, she began with stories scrawled in notebooks with brightly-coloured biros and has since progressed to writing plays on an occasionally-temperamental laptop. Molly is also a biology student at Durham University, where she spends her days writing laboratory reports and her evenings failing to stop improv comedy workshops from flying off the rails. Her first play Supernova was performed as part of LiveWrites at Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in January 2025.