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Writing & Directing
“Tracy is an award-winning writer and director with a sharp eye for comedy, drama, and everything in between. From BBC radio plays and stage productions to short films and festival hits, her work is bold, witty, and unafraid to push boundaries. Tracy’s scripts have been performed across the UK, earning critical acclaim and proving she’s as fearless behind the scenes as she is on stage.”
2004 - WROTE THE FIRST DRAFT OF FULL LENGTH STAGE PLAY 'KA- BOOM!'. THIS PLAY WAS 'DISCOVERED' BY DIRECTOR JEREMY HERRIN WHO SENT IT TO THE BBC.
2005 -2007 WROTE FIRST DRAFT OF A FULL LENGTH FEATURE FILM SET IN WALES CALLED 'COUNTRY MATTERS', LATER TO BECOME 'GATHERING MOSS'.
2006 WAS COMMISSIONED TO WRITE SHORT RADIO PLAYS 'I'M NOT YOU' AND 'THE WORM' BY THE BBC RUN 'SPARKS' WORKSHOP IN LONDON.
FOR MUCH OF 2006 MENTORED BY SUE ROBERTS IN RADIO-DRAMA WRITING.
2006 WROTE AND SUBMITTED RADIO PLAY 'WHOLE' TO THE ALFRED BRADLEY BURSARY AWARD AT THE BBC. IT WAS LONG-LISTED.
2007 LIVE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE, BACKED BY THE BBC, COMMISSIONED SHORT PLAY 'UNDER THE BRIDGE' FOR PERFORMANCE IN THE 'BUILDING WORKS' FESTIVAL (PERFORMED IN 2008). DIRECTOR JEREMY HERRIN.
2008 LIVE THEATRE COMMISSIONED A NEW DRAFT OF 'KABOOM!' TO BE PERFORMED AT THE 'BUILDING WORKS' FESTIVAL IN 2008. DIRECTOR STEVE GILROY.
2009 FILM SCRIPT 'HELLDANCE' WAS SHORTLISTED BY NORTHERN FILM AND MEDIA TO BE PRODUCED BY THEM IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN ORIGINAL ONE MINUTE PIECE OF MUSIC CALLED 'HELL- HORN'.
2009 WROTE SEVERAL COMEDY PLAYS FOR THEATRE COMPANY 'BEG BORROW STEAL'. 'HOT GAMMON', 'JUICY CHERRY', 'ALICANTE' AND 'ALISON ALISON'. DIRECTOR TRACY GILLMAN.
2009 WAS COMMISSIONED BY THEATRE IN EDUCATION COMPANY 'CAP-A-PIE' TO WRITE A ONE ACT PLAY FOR TEENAGERS. 'NANNA GLOW' WAS PERFORMED IN JULY AND OCTOBER OF 2009. DIRECTOR TRACY GILLMAN.
IN 2009 AS PART OF THE SAME PROJECT I ALSO WORKSHOPPED WITH A GROUP OF TEENAGE GIRLS THEN HELPED THEM DEVISE AND WRITE THEIR OWN PLAY.
2009 PLAY ‘JUICY CHERRY’ WAS CHOSEN FOR THE OFF-CUT FESTIVAL, GOT INTO THE FINAL EIGHT PLAYS AND WAS PERFORMED FOR A SECOND WEEK AT THE OLD RED LION IN OCTOBER. DIRECTOR JOSS BENATHON.
2010 NEW ONE HOUR ONE-ACT PLAY 'PETER CREME'S EYES' HAD A WEEK’S RUN AT LIVE THEATRE NEWCASTLE.
2010 COMMISSIONED BY 'PAINES PLOUGH' THEATRE COMPANY TO WRITE AND PERFORM A MONOLOGUE AS PART OF THEIR PROJECT 'COME TO WHERE I'M FROM'.
2010 COMMISSIONED BY LIVE THEATRE TO WRITE A MONOLOGUE FOR THEIR 'SINGLES MONOLOGUES' PROJECT AND THE FINISHED PIECE 'FAT FLOOZIES AND BAD MEN' WAS PERFORMED IN AUGUST. THE MONOLOGUE WAS REPRISED IN JANUARY 2011. DIRECTOR PAUL JAMES.
2010 FIFTEEN MINUTE COMEDY PLAY 'MEXICO WAY' WAS SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 'OFFCUT FESTIVAL' AT THE OLD RED LION. IT MADE THE FINAL EIGHT. DIRECTOR TRACY WHITWELL.
NOVEMBER 2010 'MEXICO WAY' WAS PERFORMED AT THE 'INK FESTIVAL' IN NEWCASTLE. DIRECTOR AMY GOLDING.
JANUARY 2011 WAS COMMISSIONED TO WRITE A FULL LENGTH PLAY BY THE 'ACTOR WORKS' DRAMA SCHOOL IN LONDON. I WORKSHOPPED WITH THE STUDENTS FIRST, TO DISCOVER HOW TO SHOWCASE THEM. THE FINISHED PLAY 'ATLANTIS' RAN AT THE RIVERSIDE STUDIOS IN HAMMERSMITH IN JULY 2011.
2011 WAS COMMISSIONED TO WRITE A MONOLOGUE ABOUT A TEENAGE GIRL IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, BY LIVE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE. 'SHAYLEE GOT THE BLAME' WAS PERFORMED AS PART OF THE LIVE THEATRE'S 'BLACKOUT' SHOW.
2011 WROTE AND DIRECTED FIRST SHORT FILM/MUSIC VIDEO 'I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER'. ON YOUTUBE AS 'I AM SPARTACUS - I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER'.
MAY 2011 WROTE SHORT PLAY 'THE BADGER PRINCESS' FOR LONDON CHARITY FOUNDATION 'SCENE AND HEARD'. IT WAS PERFORMED IN THEATRO TECHNIS IN CAMDEN IN JUNE 2011.
2011 COMPLETED RADIO PLAY 'FREECLOUD AND FURY'.
2011 WROTE SHORT PLAY 'ANGER MANAGEMENT' FOR LONDON CHARITY FOUNDATION 'SCENE AND HEARD'. PERFORMED IN THEATRO TECHNIS IN CAMDEN IN NOVEMBER 2011.
2012 WAS ASKED BY THEATRE 503 IN CONJUNCTION WITH LIVE THEATRE TO WRITE A SHORT PLAY FOR THEIR 'PLAYlist' PROJECT. 'QUANTUM RUNAWAY' WAS PERFORMED AT LIVE THEATRE AND THE LATCHMERE, LONDON, IN MARCH 2012.
2012 WAS INVOLVED IN LIVE THEATRE'S 'WRITE STUFF' PROJECT, HELPING A TEENAGER WRITE HER OWN PLAY FOR THEATRE. THE RESULTING PIECE 'MICHAELA'S MISTAKE' WAS PERFORMED AT LIVE'S 2012 'FUSES' FESTIVAL IN MARCH 2012 AND AGAIN IN OCTOBER 2012. IT WAS THEN COMMISSIONED AS A FULL LENGTH MONOLOGUE (50 MINUTES), TOURING SCHOOLS AND THEATRES IN 2013.
2012 BEGAN WORK ON PLAY ‘SUGAR TITS’.
2012 PLANNED AND WROTE NOVEL ‘THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIUM’
2012 WROTE SHORT PLAY 'THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE' FOR LONDON CHARITY FOUNDATION 'SCENE AND HEARD'. PERFORMED IN THEATRO TECHNIS IN CAMDEN IN NOVEMBER 2012.
NOVEMBER 2012 REWORKED AND REFORMATTED 'MICHAELA'S MISTAKE' AS A FULL LENGTH THEATRE PIECE.
MARCH 2013 'MICHAELA'S MISTAKE' WENT ON TOUR.
2013 FINISHED DRAFT OF FULL LENGTH PLAY 'SUGAR TITS’. IT WAS LONG-LISTED FOR THE VERITY BARGATE AWARD AT SOHO THEATRE.
2013 COMPLETED FIRST DRAFT OF SECOND NOVEL, ‘TIME FOR ALICE’.
2013 HELPED A TEENAGER WRITE HER OWN PLAY OVER A WEEKEND FOR LIVE THEATRE'S 'WRITE STUFF' PROJECT.
2014 SELF-PUBLISHED ‘TIME FOR ALICE’. LATER REISSUED AND REPUBLISHED AS ‘LOVE BUTTON’
2014 COMPLETED FIRST DRAFT OF ‘GIN PALACE' - FOLLOW UP NOVEL TO ‘THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIUM.'
2014 DIRECTED SELF-PENNED MONOLOGUE 'DOGSHIT SHAYLEE' AFTER BEING CHOSEN BY WHITE BEAR SH0RT PLAY COMPETITION. (FOUR DAY RUN AT THE WHITE BEAR. KENNINGTON.)
2015 WROTE AND DIRECTED MUSIC VIDEO ENTITLED ‘ENEMY’ FOR BAND ‘SHIELDS’.
APRIL 2015 COMPLETED PROOF OF ‘GIN PALACE’.
2017 MONOLOGUE ‘BOOBS’ WAS COMMISSIONED BY LIVE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE FOR ITS YOUTH THEATRE FESTIVAL IN AUGUST.
2018. COMPETED REWRITE. MODERNISATION AND NEW EDIT OF PLAY ‘SUGAR TITS’.
2018 - BEGAN WRITING NEW NOVEL ‘THE SHE’.
2018 - WROTE ‘NEYMAR’S KILLER BOOT’ FOR SCENE & HEARD, PERFORMED FOR THREE DAYS AT THEATRO TECHNIS IN CAMDEN.
2019 - COMPLETED SCREENPLAY ‘FURIOUS’
2020 - COMPLETED WRITING NOVEL ‘THE SHE’
2021 - WROTE ‘CROSS BONES’, THE THIRD IN THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIUM BOOK SERIES.
2021 BOOK DEAL WITH PAN MACMILLAN.
2022 PAN MACMILLAN RELEASE ‘THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIUM’
2022 WROTE THE SCRIPT ‘GIN PALACE: PILOT’
2023 PAN MACMILLAN RELEASE ‘GIN PALACE’
2023 PAN MACMILLAN EXPAND TO A FIVE BOOK DEAL.
2023 WROTE AND SELF-PUBLISHED ‘THE SWEARY WITCH TINY BOOK OF WHY YOU SHOULDN'T F*CKING KILL YOURSELF’
2023 WROTE THE HIDDEN DEAD (BOOK 4 IN THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIUM SERIES).
2024 NOMINATED AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NORTH EAST PLAYWRITING AWARD WITH PLAY ‘SHARKEYE’
2024 PAN MACMILLAN RELEASED ‘CROSS BONES’.
2024 WROTE ‘THE WITCH FINDER’ (BOOK 5 IN THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIUM SERIES).
2025 PAN MACMILLAN RELEASE ‘THE HIDDEN DEAD’ FEBRUARY 13th.
2026 PAN MACMILLAN TO RELEASE ‘THE WITCH FINDER’ FEBRUARY 19th.