Martha is a young Welsh female writer for TV and theatre. She is currently developing original comedy dramas for TV with Objective Fiction, Tall Story Pictures and Two Rivers Media, and she recently worked in the writers room as a shadow writer for a prime-time BBC drama. She was part of the BBC Welsh Voices cohort in 2022, and one of 12 writers on...
Read MoreMartha is a young Welsh female writer for TV and theatre. She is currently developing original comedy dramas for TV with Objective Fiction, Tall Story Pictures and Two Rivers Media, and she recently worked in the writers room as a shadow writer for a prime-time BBC drama. She was part of the BBC Welsh Voices cohort in 2022, and one of 12 writers on the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course 2021, selected from a record 3880 applicants.Martha is currently one of five writers-in-residence at Theatre503. She is also writing and directing a new season of BAFTA-nominated crime drama game DEAD MAN’S PHONE for Electric Noir Studios. Her debut play EXISTENTIAL FISH AND DREAD is out on tour, stopping at London and Cardiff in February 2022. Her second play, THE GHOST OF YOU, placed in the top 10% of a record 5167 submissions to BBC Script Room 2021 and was long-listed for development at the Traverse. She was Chippy Lane Productions’ Writing Apprentice to BAFTA-winning writer Alan Harris, a position funded by Arts Council Wales. Previous theatre credits include short plays VERA JONES at The Old Red Lion and HOW LOAN CAN YOU GO? at The Pleasance, Islington. Her short film script FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS was awarded third place in the Women Over Fifty Festival short script competition 2019, and recently selected as one of three finalists from over 1000 entries to the Screen & Story Film Festival short script competition.Alongside writing, Martha has worked as a literary reader for Chippy Lane Productions, Urban Myth Films and KLO scouting. She has also worked as a dramaturg for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and as a researcher in factual TV.
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