Blue Stockings

Jessica Swale is an Olivier award-winning playwright, film-maker and director. She trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and Exeter University. 

She was listed in Variety Magazine’s Top Ten Brits to Watch in 2019 for her forthcoming work in film and inducted into BAFTA. 

As a playwright, her first play Blue Stockings (Shakespeare’s Globe) won her a nomination for Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright and is now on the GCSE Drama syllabus. Her second play Nell Gwynn (2016) transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the West End starring Gemma Arterton and won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. She is currently writing the screenplay for Working Title. 

Jessica is an associate artist with NGO Youth Bridge Global, author of a best-selling series of drama games books and she is also involved in Times Up UK, actively campaigning for greater equality and diversity across theatre and film. 

Georgia Green is a director and writer who trained at the Orange Tree Theatre and Goldsmiths University, London. Her work looks to bring to life bold and surprising stories that make you think and make you feel alive. Previous work includes The Mikvah Project (The Orange Tree Theatre and BBC Radio Four) for which she was nominated as Best Director at The Stage Debut Awards 2020. 

Includes themes of an adult nature, smoke and haze, and use of theatrical pyrotechnics.