Eve Leigh
Writer
Eve Leigh is an award-winning, internationally recognised writer for performance.
Theatre includes: Verbranntes Land (Schauspielhaus Wien); Salty Irina (Paines Plough); Wildfire Road (Sheffield Theatres); Pinocchio (Unicorn Theatre); Flächenbrand (Theater Bonn / TiG7 Mannheim / Theater Lüneburg); Midnight Movie (Royal Court / Theater Dessau / Theater Giessen / Honos Theater Athens); While You Are Here (The Place / Dance East); The Trick (Bush Theatre / National tour); Spooky Action at a Distance (Royal Court / RWCMD); The Curtain (Young Vic Taking Part); Stone Face and Silent Planet (Finborough Theatre).
Games, installations, and digital works include: words fail: a fortune-telling game (Coney); Ghost Pine (Audible); The Delegation (Coney / Точка доступа); Invisible Summer (Royal Court); Movimento/Variations (36 маймуни/Bulgarian National Theatre Festival); Your Future (HAU/Sophiensaele/Ballhaus Ost/Camden People’s Theatre) and A Short and Boring Story (Camden People’s Theatre).
Residencies include: National Theatre Studio attachment 2024; Royal Court 2019 and 2017; Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece 2017 and AIDF Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz 2016.
Awards include: Berlin Theatertreffen Stueckemarkt selection 2021; Sarah Award for Audio Fiction 2020; Jerwood/Royal Court New Playwright Award 2019 (with Jasmine Lee-Jones); Women’s Prize for Playwriting Finalist 2020 and Bruntwood Prize shortlist 2019.
Upcoming work includes commissions from Headlong, Unicorn Theatre and the Javaad Alipoor Company.