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Mercury Creative and alumni of Mercury Theatre and Cambridge Junction Writing Programmes.

She will join the Royal Court Writers’ Group 2026.

Her work has been performed at various venues, such as Pleasance Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Theatre Deli, Cambridge Junction, AMT Theatre and the NOLA Project.

A multi-layered theatrical event spanning 15 spaces and is an urgent collective response to the release of the Epstein Files. Created by more than seventy female-identifying and non-binary playwrights and artists, it confronts institutional silence, cultural complicity and the enduring history of misogyny.

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  • Longlisted for Jerwood Foundation Writer in Residence 2026

  • Omnibus Theatre, Excerpt, Staged Reading (2025)

  • Mercury Theatre, Development (2024)

  • Cambridge Junction, R&D (2023)

As estranged childhood friends, Zana and Tai, reconnect, they discover that their past is not what they thought and that nature around them is very much alive. Decades before, Rio embarks on a long journey to find hope in the girl of her visions.

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Solifuge

This play thinks about the lived realities of being a veteran once you are back home. Trying to understand your experiences and how to move on, this play explores what it means to be haunted by your past and how you deal with that. We follow Corporal Simons as he writes a letter to a child he saw in Iraq. But in the end, the question remains: will anyone ever read this letter?

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  • Longlisted for Housemates Festival 2026, Brixton House

  • Shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025

  • Arts Council Project Grant 30k (+10k in kind), Young Vic, Cardboard Citizens, HighRise, Carmen Collective, Research & Development (2024)

  • Pleasance Theatre, Excerpt, Main House (2025)

A piece of political theatre that explores how poverty leads to the breakdown of community. We follow a teenager and his mother struggle with their relationship to each other, as their community crumbles around them. This play uses lyricism inspired by rap, highlighting our shared responsibility for any injustices in our communities.

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with Thomas Mullen

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In the Seventh Ward funeral home where it's said that jazz was born, Lucy (ifer)—infamous banished angel and club owner—has hosted dead legends in her secret nightclub since the Civil War. Tired of the music, she's threatening to shutter it, despite the pleadings of her manager who's hellbent to change her mind.

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©2026 by Maria Messias Mendes.

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