Joe White

Joe won the Channel 4 Playwriting Bursary Award in 2015 and was Pentabus‘ Writer in Residence in 2015. He is an award-winning writer from Birmingham, who has developed work with The Old Vic, Lyric Hammersmith, Bush, Hampstead, Birmingham REP and BBC Radio 3. In 2014, he was selected for the BBC Writersroom 10. In 2017, he was selected for the Orange Tree Writers Collective and The Old Vic 12. His debut play Mayfly premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre in Spring 2018, and led to nominations for Best New Writer at the Stage Debut Awards and Most Promising New Playwright at the OffWestEnd Awards, which he won. Mayfly is published by Nick Hern Books. In 2019, Joe was selected for the BBC TV Drama Writers Programme, through which he is developing a pilot with STV. In 2020 he is under commission with Sheffield Crucible, Audible and Carnival Films.