Laura Wade - Career

Career

Her first play, Limbo, was produced at the Sheffield Crucible Studio Theatre in 1996. 16 Winters was produced at the Bristol Old Vic Basement Theatre in 2000. After university she worked for the children's theatre company Playbox Theatre in Warwick. Wade’s adaptation of W.H. Davies' Young Emma opened at the Finborough Theatre, London (where she was later Writer-in-Residence) in December 2003. Young Emma, as well as 16 Winters, was directed by Tamara Harvey, a contemporary from her time at Bristol.

In 2004 Wade was a writer on attachment at Soho Theatre and her play Colder Than Here was produced there in February 2005 . Her next play Breathing Corpses played at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 2005.. In March 2006 she returned to the Soho Theatre with Other Hands .

Current projects include new plays for the Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and David Pugh Ltd. and a television adaptation of Colder Than Here. Wade’s first radio play, Otherkin, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 30 August 2007, a 45-minute play billed as episode 2 of the Looking for Angels series. Her second, Hum, about the Bristol Hum, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 20 May 2009. Between these two she also wrote Coughs and Sneezes for the Radio 4 series Fact to Fiction.

In April 2010 her play Posh began a sell-out run at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court theatre, London. An article about Wade in the London Evening Standard drew parallels between the Riot Club, the subject of Posh, and the Bullingdon Club, an exclusive Oxford University dining society.

On 11 May 2012 an updated version of Posh opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, Wade's first play to appear in the West End.