Eva Edo is an Award Winning Black British writer of Nigerian and Caribbean decent whose work is coloured by her lived experience as a child protection and family law solicitor together with being a mother. Her play “A MOTHERS COURAGE” won the Royal Society of Literature Matters Award. “LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN” was nominated for The Alfred Fagon Award. Her short film “MATERNAL” won the Lucy Scher Award.
Eva started her career within theatre and has expanded it to TV and film. She’s currently on BBC SCRIPTED, alongside developing projects for TV, film, and theatre.
Television
CHOSEN
Writer
Original drama spec script
SACRED ACTS
Writer
Original drama spec script
Ben A. Williams director attached
FOURTEEN
Writer
Original single film treatment
Renegade Productions
BBC DOCTORS
Writer
Trial script
Film
DELIVERANCE
Writer
Short film
Artemisia Productions script commission
MATERNAL
Writer
Short film
Pitch Fund competition finalist
Winner Lucy Scher Award
GRANDBOY
Writer/director
Short film
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Shadow directing Ben A. Williams
Fox and Canal
DR WHO
Shadow directing Ben A. Williams
Bad Wolf Productions
Stage
THE BODY REMEMBERS
Co-creator / Dramaturg
Sounds Like Chaos Theatre
CAKES AND CONDOMS
Writer
Open Clasp Theatre commission
PARCHED
Writer
University of West London commission
A MOTHERS COURAGE
Writer
Winner Royal Society of Literature Matters Award
TIGER MUM
Writer/Performer
Vault Festival /Traverse/Soho Rising/Theatre 503
I AM WOMEN
Writer
Arcola Theatre
Script commission Routes Collective
WONDERGIRL
Writer
Ovalhouse Theatre
TWELTH MAN
Writer
National Theatre and Out of Joint Theatre
LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
Writer
Arcola Theatre
ABSOLUTION
Writer
Southwark Playhouse
ONE LAST TIME
Writer
Vault Festival
Awards and Affiliations
BBC SCRIPTED
BBC London Voices
Royal Society of Literature Matters Award
Lucy Scher Award
Resident Playwrite Traverse Theatre
Soho Theatre Writers Lab
Criterion Theatre Writers Lab
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