Tatty Hennessy is a playwright, screenwriter and graduate of the Royal Court Playwrighting course and the Channel 4 Screenwriting Programme. Her play A Hundred Words for Snow was nominated for four Off West End Awards, has been translated into several languages and performed around the world. Other work includes: Animal Farm and F Off (National Youth Theatre); Something Awful (Vault Festival) and a great big wooly mammoth thawing from the ice (Burning Coal, North Carolina). She is a recipient of the Writers Guild of Great Britain New Play Commission scheme.