Bea Roberts is a multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg from the west country. Her debut play, And Then Come The Nightjars, won the international Theatre503 playwriting award and made her a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her next project, the one-woman/no-woman show Infinity Pool: A modern re-telling of Madame Bovary had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, was nominated for a Total Theatre award and was optioned by Hartswood Films.

Bea’s modern feminist adaptation of Little Mermaid, co-devised and produced by Pins and Needles Productions, won Best Play for Children & Young People at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards. Bea is currently under commission to the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Other writing credits include environmental comedy Loam (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in association with the Royal Court), The Borrowers (Tobacco Factory Theatres) and Sir F. Mother****ing Drake, part of the My England monologue series at the Young Vic. Bea is represented by Katie Williams at The Agency.

1. Masters Degree Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media

   Central School of Speech and Drama · Oct 2008 - Oct 2009

2. Bachelors Degree Drama; Film, Theatre and Television

   University of Bristol · Oct 2004 - Jul 2008