Judy Upton Author

Judy Upton is an award-winning writer of plays for the Royal Court, National Theatre and BBC Radio 4. She has won The George Devine Award for stage play 'Ashes and Sand', Verity Bargate Award for 'Bruises' and Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Award 2016 for 'Once Around The Sun'. Plays include: 'Ashes and Sand', Royal Court; 'Bruises', Royal Court; 'Sliding With Suzanne', Royal Court; 'Team Spirit', National Theatre; 'Sunspots', The Red Room; 'Noctropia', Hampstead Theatre. She has had seven plays on BBC Radio 4, including 2019 Drama Of The Week, 'The Bulbul Was Singing'. As a screenwriter Judy's feature films are Brighton-set 'Ashes and Sand', produced by Open Road Films and Matador Pictures; and 'My Imprisoned Heart' produced by Sci-Fi London. A TV drama 'All In The Mind' was shown on BBC1, and her short films are 'Exposed', 'Milk' and 'Blame It On The Boogie'. Judy's novella, 'Maisie and Mrs Webster' was published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 2018, and Methuen will publish a second volume of her plays 'Judy Upton Plays Two' later this year, which includes some of her 2020/21 series of short lockdown plays.