Zawe Ashton is a writer, director and actor. Her writing and directing credits include short films Lighthouse, The Place We Go to Hide and Happy Toys, as well as a short documentar...view moreZawe Ashton is a writer, director and actor. Her writing and directing credits include short films Lighthouse, The Place We Go to Hide and Happy Toys, as well as a short documentary on the artist Lorraine O’Grady that formed part of the Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition at Tate Modern.
Writing credits include winning the Farrago UK Poetry Slam! in 2000, Dream Factor (National Youth Theatre schools’ tour), Have a Butchers, Sweetness and Light (DryWrite), Edible Flowers (DryWrite at Latitude Festival), Girls Aloud (Clean Break Theatre). Zawe’s first play Harm’s Way was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award in 2007. Harms Way premiered in 2008 as part of the National Youth Theatre’s new writing season at The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, directed by Tessa Walker. Her latest play For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad will be staged in 2019.
Zawe is also a novelist and her debut novel Character Breakdown was published by Chatto and Windus in April 2019.view less