Katherine Soper

Katherine Soper’s first play, Wish List, won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015. It was performed in 2017 at the Royal Exchange Manchester and Royal Court Theatre and has since been produced in Germany, Turkey and South Korea. She has been nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and won the Stage Debut Award for Best Writer. She wrote The Small Hours for National Theatre Connections in 2019 and was an editor and contributor to the Royal Court Theatre’s Living Newspaper project in 2020. Her first radio play, Calls From Far Away, aired in 2022 on BBC Radio 4. Most recently, she adapted Euripides’ The Bacchae for the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre.