Vanessa Oakes

She trained as a theatre designer before working extensively in scenography, community arts and arts administration. Her recent plays include; The Watched Sea (CAPITAL), The Permitted Number (Paines Plough/Belgrade Theatre), I Am Active (Red Teapot), The Kindness of Strangers (Warwick Words), Lost in Paradise CV6 (Belgrade Theatre), A Body Moving Through (the estate), Live Like Us (Belgrade Theatre). Current projects include; Writer in Residence at the George Eliot Collection and His Naked Eye a new play for Theatre in Action (Glasgow).