Tabitha Mortiboy

Tabitha Mortiboy is a writer based in London. Her latest production The Amber Trap ran at London’s Theatre503, directed by Hannah Hauer-King and produced by Damsel. Her most recent theatre script Daffy Grod and The Shaking Lights was shortlisted for the Papatango Prize and longlisted for the Bruntwood Award. Her first play Billy Through the Window was shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Excellence Award. In 2020 she was named runner up in the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize; in 2021 her script Kissing Rice was shortlisted for the inaugural Hope Playwriting Prize, and later that year her original seven-part audio drama Life Sentence was produced by Mags Creative and won the Gold Award at the ARIAS 2022 for Creative Innovation. Beacons was originally produced at The Park Theatre, London in 2016, where it picked up nominations for three Off West End Awards including Best New Play and Most Promising New Playwright. It first transferred to The Devonshire Park Theatre in March 2020 and is now returning for its second run.