Praise for Cheer Up Slug, dir. Anna Ryder (2021)

“Tamsin Rees' play is powerful tour-de-force”
- North East Theatre Guide

“sparky and disturbing two-hander” - The Guardian ★★★★

“Rees deploys the right degree of care in tackling the thorny subject of teenage sex and sexuality, with all its awkwardness and uncertainty.” - Exeunt

As a playwright, works include:

‘Cheer Up Slug’, dir. Anna Ryder, Live Theatre (October 2021)

‘My Mate Ren’, dir. Holly Gallagher, ACE funded (May 2022)

‘Fledglings’, dir. Emily Collins, Nuffield Southampton Theatres (October 2019)

‘Clementines’, dir. Joe Douglas, Live Theatre (December 2018)

‘Teddy’, dir. Anna Ryder, Durham Book Festival/NWN (September 2018)

‘Fingerwank’, dir. by Jonluke Mckie for Live Theatre, and Nel Crouch for Bunker Theatre (2017)

Awards:

Orange Tree Writers Collective 2021-22

BBC North East Voices 2021

Shortlisted top 1% for the BBC Script Room Drama 2021

Long listed for the BBC Alfred Bradley Award 2021

Northern Bridge Studentship Award funded by AHRC 2019-2023

Long listed for Old Vic 12 Playwriting Scheme 2018

Long listed for the Theatre503 Playwriting Award 2018

Royal Court Writers Group North 2018

Newcastle University School Masters Scholarship Award 2018-2019

Newcastle University Brooks Johnson Prize for Drama 2018

Newcastle University Cowan Best File of Original Literary Work in Creative Writing 2018