My name is Bea, I write scripts and sometimes I perform them. I’m from the west country, I largely write comedy/comedy-drama and I once did a show about Cher. I bloody love Cher.
Playwright
I won the inaugural Theatre503 Playwriting award for my play And Then Come The Nightjars – which also earned me a place as a 2016 Finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. My critically acclaimed one woman/no woman show Infinity Pool; A Modern Re-telling of Madame Bovary garnered a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe and a Total Theatre Award nomination. I’m also a recipient of the JB Priestley Award from the Royal Literary Fund and recently won a UK Theatre Award for my adaptation of Little Mermaid.
My latest family show, an adaptation of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers developed with director Nik Partridge for Tobacco Factory Theatres, enjoyed a sell out run over Christmas 2018.
I am currently writing a large scale comedy for the National Theatre and am also under commission to English Touring Theatre and the Royal Court in collaboration with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
In addition to this I am developing a 1950s’ Sci-fi comedy musical – Wasp Woman: The Musical with composer Jack Drewry.
Screenwriter
I’ve been a TV geek for as long as I remember. Growing up in rural Devon, television was my window out into a world beyond hedgerows and cow pats and so I grew up on a diet of everything from ‘Sesame Street’ to ‘Cracker’, ‘The Upper Hand’ to ‘Eurotrash’.
I currently have original comedy drama series under option with several production companies including Hartswood Films.
I was also recently selected to represent the west country in the Young Vic Theatre’s My England film project, a series of film shorts about English national identity written by 14 writers including Jack Thorne and Simon Stephens. My film Sir F. Mother Fucking Drake starring Fleabag’s Jenny Rainsford is due to be released in February 2019.
Dramaturg
I was dramaturg for The Wardrobe Ensemble on their Fringe First and Stage Award winning showEducation, Education, Education and am currently working with the company on their new show ThePelican Daughters. I have also dramaturged (is that a word?) for Scratchworks Theatre Company, playwright Lucy Bell of Documental Theatre, Tremolo theatre, the North Wall Arts Centre’s Emerging Writers programme and the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
A new play written for the students of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre and Oliver Award winning director, Donnacadh O’Briain. Debuts at…
Come and climb into ‘The C-Word Clubhouse a brand new spangly eco-comedy-cabaret-bingo-disco about Climate Change; the coming curfew, the turd in humanity’s collective punchbowl! The C-Wor…
An original adaptation of Mary Norton’s much loved children’s classic for Tobacco Factory Theatres, Christmas 2018. “This captivating family Christmas show fizzes with exuberan…
Developed in collaboration with Pins and Needles Productions. “Bea Roberts’ Little Mermaid for the Egg theatre, Bath is, without exaggeration, a thing of beauty. Hans Christian Andersen&#…
Fresh from a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Bedlam Theatre. Nominated for a Total Theatre Award 2016. Top Fringe Show to See as picked by The Independent, The Guardian, The Observe…
As the devastating Foot and Mouth disease epidemic of 2001 rips through the English countryside Michael’s farm becomes a battleground as his business, his heritage and his friendship with local vet …
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