Georgina Burns

Writer

Biography

Georgina’s plays have been performed at Hampstead Theatre, Theatre503, Riverside Studios, the Arcola and the Stephen Joseph Theatre. She was mentored by the playwright Nell Leyshon as part of the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme, took the Advances in Scriptwriting Course with Stephen Jeffreys at RADA and was a participant on Hampstead Theatre’s writer development programme, Inspire. Her debut play, Ravenscourt, which she wrote on the programme opened at the Hampstead Theatre downstairs in September 2022.

Georgina graduated with a degree in Politics and then worked in fiction publishing and the third sector. She later qualified as a psychotherapist.

Credits

Theatre

Production Company Notes
RAVENSCOURT
2022
Hampstead Theatre

Dir. Tessa Walker

PORTRAIT
2019
Stephen Joseph Theatre

Rehearsed Reading
Longlisted for the Women’s Playwriting Prize in 2020.
Shortlisted for the Radius Prize, 2018.
Longlisted for the Bruntwood and Papatango Prizes, 2017.

ST GEORGES DAY
2014
Arcola Theatre

Rehearsed Reading
Part of PlayWROUGHT New Writing Festival
Extract published in Binned: (A celebration of Jerwood/Arvon Writers, 2012)

MARY
2011 – 2012
Theatre503

Short, performed for Rapid Write Response, Rapid Write Rewind & Confessional.

SPRING
2011
Hammersmith Studios

Off Cut Festival

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