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AMY POWELL YEATES

'Made me laugh and cry. I loved it.’  Deborah Frances-White (The Guilty Feminist) on LITTLE DEATHS

 

Amy is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter with a background in devising and collaborative approaches.  

Her short plays have been performed at Theatre 503, The Arcola and Vaults Festival.

 

Her debut full length play LITTLE DEATHS played at Summerhall for the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, receiving a variety of four and five star reviews and a London transfer in Spring 2025.

She was a 2021 London Library Emerging Writer and is writing her next play on attachment to the Hampstead Theatre, as part of the 2024/25 Inspire Programme, mentored by Roy Williams. In 2025, she was awarded a grant to support her playwriting by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

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Previously, Amy worked in creative development and theatre producing for over ten years, with organisations including Playful Productions, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court Theatre and Barbican.​  In 2023 she produced the first ever staged reading of Sylvia Pankhurst’s ‘lost play’ BETWEEN TWO FIRES, written during her time in Holloway prison.

She is scheduled to make her first funded short film later this year.

She grew up in Wales and trained at the University of Leeds Workshop Theatre. 

Amy is represented by Allie Highmore at LARK Management.

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