Ella Hickson

Writer

Ella is this year’s Pearson Playwright for the Lyric Hammersmith after bursting onto the theatre scene in 2008 with an award-winning debut play, Eight.

She has since penned two more sell-out plays, Precious Little Talent and Hot Mess, and has worked with the Traverse as their Emerging Playwright on Attachment and the Royal Court’s Invitation Group. Among her current theatre projects, she is under commission to Headlong Theatre Company. and there will be a new production of her play, Precious Little Talent, at the Trafalgar Studios in April.

Ella also writes for TV and radio. She is under commission to write an Afternoon Play for BBC R4 and is participating in C4’s Screenwriting Course as well as developing a number of original ideas.