

Marianka Swain trained on the Gate and Soho Theatre’s young writers’ programmes and her short plays were workshopped at both theatres. She read English at Oxford, where she won the 2004 New Writing Festival, and completed UEA’s Scriptwriting MA in 2010-11. She is a freelance journalist, proofreader and editor and has been a script reader for the Old Vic. Her agent is Alan Brodie Representation.