JANE UPTON (Writer/Theatre/Radio) is currently writing (the) WOMAN, shortlisted for the Bruntwood Award, for New Perspectives, scheduled for production in Spring 2025. Plays include THE PRICE OF HOME (Paines Plough & Derby Theatre: Come to Where I Am, S6); FINDING NANA (Pleasance Edinburgh Festival, dir Katie Posner, New Perspectives), ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS (Fifth Word, UK tour, Arcola Theatre), WATCHING THE LIVING – an adaptation of two short stories by Daphne Du Maurier (New Perspectives, UK tour), SWIMMING (Menagerie Theatre, Hotbed Festival, Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), and BONES (Fifth Word, Edinburgh Festival and UK tour).
Paines Plough nominated Jane for this year’s Adopt a Playwright Award, which she won and is writing an ambitious new play.
ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS was nominated Best Play for the 2019 OFFIES and for the 2017 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards; it was joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. The play is published by Nick Hern Books. Jane received a bursary from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and was shortlisted for CBBC New Voices Initiative.
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