Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast

S8 Ep2: Amy Jephta talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 20 December 2024: Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter and actor based in Cape Town. She was named one of the Mail and Guardian’s 200 Top Young South Africans in 2013 and is the recipient of South Africa’s highest art accolade - The Standard Bank Young Artist Award. Amy’s play, A Good House, runs at the Royal Court in January 2025.
 

S8 Ep1: Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 5 December 2024: Sutara Gayle is a writer and performer, also known as the award-winning, South London reggae artist Lorna Gee. Last year, her one woman play The Legends of Them, played a highly acclaimed run at Brixton House, produced by the Hackney Showroom. This Christmas it will run in the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs.
 

S7 Ep10: Emteaz Hussain talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 30 April 2024: Emteaz Hussain is a playwright and performance poet. As a performance poet she has toured both nationally and internationally. As a writer, her plays include Social Distancing, Etching and writing as part of the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper. Her latest play Expendable, will play in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs later this year.
 

S7 Ep9: Oli Forsyth talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 22 April 2024: Oli Forsyth is a TV and theatre writer, as well as having his own theatre company Smoke and Oakum. His plays have been performed at the New Diorama, Hampstead, Vault Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. This year, his play BRACE BRACE will play in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.
 

S7 Ep8: Mark Rosenblatt talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 15 April 2024: Mark Rosenblatt is a writer and director for stage and screen. He’s worked as a theatre director since 1998 and in that time has worked as the Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse, and Studio Associate at the National Theatre. This year, his debut play Giant will play in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
 

S7 Ep7: Tife Kusoro talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 8 April 2024: Tife Kusoro is a writer and performer whose work has previously been shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon award, Verity Bargate award and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Tife’s play G was developed whilst on attachment with the Royal Court, it will debut in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs later this year.
 

S7 Ep6: Nassim Soleimanpour talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 2 April 2024: Nassim Soleimanpour is a playwright, theatre maker and the Artistic Director of the Berlin Based Theatre company Nassim Soleimanpour Productions. This year, his latest piece Echo debuts in the Royal Court Theatre’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in collaboration with LIFT.
 

S7 Ep5: Stewart Pringle talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 25 March 2024: Stewart Pringle is a playwright and dramaturg. He currently works as Senior Dramaturg at the National Theatre. His latest play The Bounds will play in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs later this year.
 

S7 Ep4: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 18 March 2024: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her latest play Lie Low was presented in the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023. Lie Low makes it London debut this year in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.
 

S7 Ep3: Margaret Perry talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 11 March 2024: Margaret Perry is an award-winning playwright. Her stage work includes Porcelain, Collapsible and Paradise Now! which was nominated for a 2023 Olivier Award (Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre). This year, she collaborates with Katie Mitchell on an adaptation of Maggie Nelson’s ‘Bluets’, which will play in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs later this year.