Lou Ramsden was one of the‘503Five’, a group of writers on attachment with Theatre503 in London.  As part of this, her full-length play Breed was produced at Theatre 503 in September 2010, and she was subsequently shortlisted for the Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright Award 2010.  Earlier in 2010 she completed a nine week attachment at the National Theatre Studio, and the play she started writing there is currently being developed.  Her next stage production will be Hundreds and Thousands, at Soho Theatre Upstairs in June 2011.  She has written several plays for BBC Radio 4 - including five Afternoon Plays, two short dramas for the Woman’s Hour slot, and a series co-written with Nancy Harris.  In 2009, her Afternoon Play Dos and Don’ts for the Mentally Interesting won a Mind Mental Health Media Award.  Her previous stage work has been featured at the Edinburgh Fringe; in the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival; and at the Young Vic, as part of Paines Plough’s Wild Lunch season.  Radio : Pouring Poison, Dos and Don’ts for the Mentally Interesting, Blood In the Bridal Shop, In Form, Gunpowder Women, Lilly’s Mum, Tree Splitting, Sampler T6.  Theatre : Breed (Theatre 503), 2004 (part of Decade at Theatre 503), The Half-Widow (developed at the NT Studio), Hundreds and Thousands (Soho Theatre - 2011), Gas and Air (Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Pleasance Theatre London), Black Snot (Royal Court Young Writers Festival, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs), The Devil of Great Titchfield Street (Paines Plough Wild Lunch, Young Vic).