Zoe Cooper
Zoe Cooper is a London-born playwright, now living in Newcastle with her wife and two-year-old daughter. Her plays include Northanger Abbey, inspired by the Austen novel (Orange Tree Theatre, Bolton Octagon, TBTL and SJT), an adaptation of David Almond’s novel A Song for Ella Grey (Pilot/Northern Stage and touring), Out of Water (Orange Tree) and Jess and Joe Forever (Orange Tree, touring and Traverse).
She will be seconded from her fractional role as a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Script at Newcastle University, where she has worked for the last 8 years after completing her PhD.
Zoe has been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award, the Women’s Playwriting Prize and was the winner of the Off West End Most Promising Playwright Award.