Natasha Collie

Writer

ABOUT ME

I’m a UK-based playwright who’s currently shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2025. I’ve previously been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, longlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and was part of the Royal Court’s Long-Form Invitation Group 2023-24.

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Full-length plays include:

  • Dream Body (Shortlisted, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2025)

  • Eleven at Night Somewhere Without You (Longlisted, Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023; Longlisted, Verity Bargate Award 2024)

  • With Striplights Hung From the Stars (Longlisted, Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2021)

  • When the Sea Swallows Us Whole, VAULT Festival, dir. Beth Kapila, 2020 (Shortlisted, Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020; Shortlisted, VAULT Origins Award)

  • Snowbird, Tristan Bates Theatre, dir. Matt Harrison, 2013

  • Please Wait Patiently, Chiswick Playhouse, dir. Matt Harrison, 2012

  • Moonfruit, National Youth Theatre @ Unicorn Theatre, dir. Cathy Owen, 2012

Short plays include:

  • Mary-Ann Says, for the Royal Court’s Living Archive, 2024

  • SW1 Project, Royal Court Theatre, dir. Grace Gummer, 2023

  • A Loveletter from the Time of Borderism to the Time of Nuclear Fallout, South-East Regional Tour, 2019 (Winner, Horsham District Year of Culture Playwriting Award)

  • Gorgeous Like Something with Antlers, South-East Regional Tour, 2019 (Winner, Horsham District Year of Culture Playwriting Award)

  • Love or IKEA, Chelsea Theatre, 2018

  • The Night Before We Left Home, Chelsea Theatre, 2018

  • The Launch, Tabard Theatre, 2017

  • Architect, Rich Mix, 2014

  • Saint, Old Red Lion Theatre, 2014

  • The Sea Wall, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2012

For radio:

  • Flamenco Feet, Winner - Gold Award for Best Scripted Programming, BBC Student Radio Awards 2010

  • Shapes, Bronze Award for Best Scripted Programming, BBC Student Radio Awards 2010

  • Slow Hands, Winner - Gold Award for Best Scripted Programming, BBC Student Radio Awards 2009

  • “A writer who knows how to turn a vivid phrase."

    Lyn Gardner

  • "Seriously brilliant. First time I've heard something genuinely new in ages. Fresh, engaging, intelligent. Thematically superb. Great acting, great script... Can't laud this highly enough."

    BBC Student Radio Awards Judge

  • “Female characters who really zing"

    What’s On Stage

  • "Off-kilter, brilliant and brave"

    BBC Student Radio Awards

  • "A playwright who creates characters with heart and a compelling voice when it comes to storytelling"

    Creative Reviews UK

  • "There should be more drama like this going to air. Not only is this brilliant and brave conceptually – it is extremely well written. Thought-provoking and real – a radio drama with an edge and with a point to make. It made that point in a gracious and entertaining way."

    BBC Student Radio Awards

  • "Surprises and unnerves"

    The Play’s the Thing

  • "Collie is definitely a writer to watch."

    Lyn Gardner

  • "This is, frankly, excellent. Beautifully scripted with a great sense of rhythm and the sound of language as well as content. Approachable, personal and entertaining."

    BBC Student Radio Awards

  • ""A strange, sensitive coming-of-age story."

    Within Her Words

  • "One of the best bits of radio I've heard in ages."

    BBC Student Radio Awards Judge

  • "So ambitious. A brilliant idea with great use of sound. It takes storytelling into the 21st Century. So impressed that this could be done on student radio."

    BBC Student Radio Awards

My work

BRUNTWOOD PRIZE SHORTLIST 2025

WHEN THE SEA SWALLOWS US WHOLE

SW1 PROJECT

Photo: Alessandra Davison