Jessica Norman

Jessica Norman is an award-winning writer for stage and screen. 

Her debut play This Little Earth opened at Arcola Theatre in 2025 (“Norman is one to watch”, The Guardian; “An absolute gem of a play”, Everything Theatre; “A staggering debut”, West End Best Friend), and was long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting/shortlisted for the Originals Playwriting Award.

Other plays include: Wilding (shortlisted for the Papatango Prize/long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting); The Healing (written on attachment to Hampstead Theatre); The Stones; and Vitriol (Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award Long-list/developed with Oxford Playhouse). She’s an alumnus of Hampstead Theatre’s 2022/23 INSPIRE Writers Group, Oxford Playhouse Playmakers 23/24, and Soho Theatre Writers Lab.  

For screen, she is developing a slate of projects including The Appeal with James Norton’s Rabbit Track Pictures, an original series with Pulse Films, and Carlisle House with co-writer Rebecca Crookshank — selected for MIA Market pitching forum, Rome in October 2022. In 2020, her short film Embraceable You, written and filmed during lockdown, won Best Isolation Short at the LA Motion Picture Festival.