Sally Woodcock is a playwright, producer, director and teacher. Born in Pakistan and raised in Kenya to South Africa-born Anglo-Irish and Australian parents, her upbringing drives a passion for stories which emerge from cross-cultural identity and the free movement of people.
Hear Sally talk about her cultural heritage at Come to Where I'm From (Gate Theatre for Paines Plough / Tamasha 2016).
Sally's first full-length play Fanta Orange (Finborough Theatre; developed at NT Studio) won Little Brother's Big Opportunity II, Exeunt Critic's Pick 2011, nominated for Best New Play by Offwestend and Time Out and co-winner International Playwriting Festival (Warehouse Croydon). Other plays include Blue Whales (RADA Festival / Soho Theatre / Luton Library Theatre); Pink Gin (Salisbury Playhouse), Kitchen Sink Drama (RADA Foyer), The Trouser Department (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh), All the Wrong Reasons (Bridewell); Wedding Belles (Gilded Balloon & Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh / 78th St Theater Lab, NYC).
Work in progress includes U-Bend (director Sue Dunderdale: former Head of RADA MA), Shamba (drama series for Little Brother Productions), Horses For Courses (shortlisted for Papatango) and Clever (shortlisted for Menagerie Sparks).
With Toby Guy Parsons she co-founded HORSESHOE theatre co. (Cambridge), staging GCSE and A Level curriculum dramas and running workshops for schools from 2005-2010.
In 2016 she founded MESH theatre co to stage historic war dramas in the locations where they were fought. First MESH production will be JOURNEY'S END by R C Sheriff in Ypres, Belgium.
Sally is a graduate of Tamasha Playwrights and the Royal Court Invitation Group. She has an MA in Text and Performance (RADA); MPHIL in Arts Education (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) B Ed Drama (Homerton, Cambridge); Post Graduate Diploma in Acting and Musical Theatre (Hertfordshire Theatre School) and NCTJ Certificate in Newspaper Journalism.
She is represented by Tanya Tillett at The Agency
Plays published by Oberon Books.
Hear Sally talk about her cultural heritage at Come to Where I'm From (Gate Theatre for Paines Plough / Tamasha 2016).
Sally's first full-length play Fanta Orange (Finborough Theatre; developed at NT Studio) won Little Brother's Big Opportunity II, Exeunt Critic's Pick 2011, nominated for Best New Play by Offwestend and Time Out and co-winner International Playwriting Festival (Warehouse Croydon). Other plays include Blue Whales (RADA Festival / Soho Theatre / Luton Library Theatre); Pink Gin (Salisbury Playhouse), Kitchen Sink Drama (RADA Foyer), The Trouser Department (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh), All the Wrong Reasons (Bridewell); Wedding Belles (Gilded Balloon & Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh / 78th St Theater Lab, NYC).
Work in progress includes U-Bend (director Sue Dunderdale: former Head of RADA MA), Shamba (drama series for Little Brother Productions), Horses For Courses (shortlisted for Papatango) and Clever (shortlisted for Menagerie Sparks).
With Toby Guy Parsons she co-founded HORSESHOE theatre co. (Cambridge), staging GCSE and A Level curriculum dramas and running workshops for schools from 2005-2010.
In 2016 she founded MESH theatre co to stage historic war dramas in the locations where they were fought. First MESH production will be JOURNEY'S END by R C Sheriff in Ypres, Belgium.
Sally is a graduate of Tamasha Playwrights and the Royal Court Invitation Group. She has an MA in Text and Performance (RADA); MPHIL in Arts Education (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) B Ed Drama (Homerton, Cambridge); Post Graduate Diploma in Acting and Musical Theatre (Hertfordshire Theatre School) and NCTJ Certificate in Newspaper Journalism.
She is represented by Tanya Tillett at The Agency
Plays published by Oberon Books.