Sophie Ellerby

Alumni Pentabus Writer In Residence, Sophie Ellerby writes for stage and screen.

Her career began as an actor at fifteen, starring in This is England (Shane Meadows). Her debut play ‘LIT’, co-produced in 2019 by HighTide and Nottingham Playhouse, had a sell out run and rave reviews. The Guardian cited her as one of the 2023 stage sensations to look out for. Lit is currently being developed for television with Griffin Pictures and the BFI.

Other theatre work includes: Three (Arcola Theatre), Function (Criterion Theatre), to whom it may concern, (Cardboard Citizens tour), Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith), and painkiller (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

She has a number of projects in development, including play commissions with Fifth Word Theatre and Runaway Productions, a political musical with ‘Standing At the Sky’s Edge’ producers, Various Productions, an original TV series co-written with Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy), and a co-commission with the Kiln theatre and Sky. Her debut short ‘The Walk’, starring Adeel Akhtar, played in Competition for Best Short at the BFI London Film Festival. Her second short, ‘CARE’, funded by The Uncertain Kingdom, is currently in post production. Sophie’s writing centres bold, beautifully flawed characters and aims to tackle provocative societal questions in an entertaining and human way.