Charlie Josephine is a writer, director and actor.

Their latest play, COWBOIS, enjoyed a brilliant run at Swan Theatre as part of the RSC’s summer season for 2023.  A “rollicking queer cowboy show”, the play will next open in January 2024 at the Royal Court London. BOOK TICKETS

Praise for COWBOIS:

★★★★ “A whole new frontier.” The Guardian.

★★★★ “Swagger, humour, and plenty of good old-fashioned gun slinging action” WhatsOnStage.

★★★★ “Yeehaw! The Wild West just got a little wilder!” The Telegraph.

“The queer western of our dreams” Diva Magazine.

Recent work includes FLIES (Boundless Theatre), running from 22^nd February at Shoreditch Town Hall, BIRDS AND BEES (Theatre Centre), which opened at the Sheffield Crucible in January, and  ONE OF THEM ONES (Pentabus), which will tour between March and May.

In Summer 2022, their play I, JOAN opened to great acclaim at Shakespeare’s Globe:

★★★★★ “A gender-fluid revolutionary for our times. Intelligently epic…[and] also terrific fun.” The Times

★★★★★ “Genuinely revolutionary…simmers with queer rebellion.” WhatsOnStage

★★★★ “Joyous and unifying…A game-changer.” Evening Standard

★★★★ “A politically charged sensation…This company is one of jubilant power” The Guardian

★★★★ “Funny, fierce non-binary Joan of Arc proves sceptics wrong” Independent

Charlie is currently under commission for new plays with the RSC and NT Connections and is writing a play as the Headlong Writer-In-Residence. They are also developing a new feature biopic with Salon Pictures.

Amongst Charlie’s previous work, BITCH BOXER won the Soho Theatre Young Writers Award 2012, the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, the Holden Street Theatre’s Award 2013, and the Adelaide Fringe Award 2014. It was later developed as a feature with BBC Films.

Charlie’s play BLUSH enjoyed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it picked up The Stage Edinburgh Award 2016 then transferred to Camden People’s Theatre as part of the Calm Down Dear Feminist Festival. It toured throughout 2017, having opened at the Soho Theatre, and was developed for TV.

Their play POPS enjoyed a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival 2019 and then High Tide Festival. Charlie spent 2019 as a member of the Old Vic 12, and also wrote new play MOON LICKS for Paines Plough and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. It was performed at the Yard in June 2022.

Charlie’s plays BITCH BOXER, BLUSH and POPS are published by Oberon Books. I, JOAN, FLIES and BIRDS AND BEES are published by Concord Theatricals. Their audio drama MASSIVE is currently available at Audible.

For screen work, Charlie won the inaugural BBC Screenplay First Award, and in March 2017 was named on the BBC New Talent Hotlist.

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