Mrs Frances Poet
Reader in Playwriting and Screenwriting
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 1756
- fjas@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Location
- The Byre Theatre
Biography
Frances Poet is a writer of stage, screen and radio. Stage plays include: Small Acts of Love which reopened the newly renovated Citizens Theatre (2025), Fruitcake (Tron Theatre 2025), There Is No Room In Our Bathroom For Lewis Capaldi (PACE at Paisley Arts Centre 2024), Sense and Sensibility (Pitlochry Festival Theatre and OVO, St Albans 2024), Still (Traverse Theatre 2021), Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse/Queens Theatre Hornchurch/Leicester Curve 2020 and 2022, Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist 2021), Fibres (Citizens Theatre/Stella Quines tour 2019), Gut (Traverse Theatre/Tron Theatre 2018, Writers’ Guild Best Play Award 2019) and the multi-award winning Adam (National Theatre of Scotland tour 2017-19, Fringe First, The Flying Artichoke Award and, on screen, winner of BAFTA Scotland Best Television Scripted 2020 and Audience Award for Best Film at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival). Frances’s new play, Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In will tour Scotland in Spring 2026 in a National Theatre of Scotland/Tron Theatre co-production.
Frances’s work is often produced internationally with recent productions including a French translation of Fruitcake (Les Prémonitions De Mikaël Morneau, translated by Marc-André Thibault) produced in Montreal, two Turkish-language productions of Gut (His, translated by Servat Aybar) premiered in Istanbul and Cyrpus, a Portuguese translation of Adam produced in Lisbon (translated by Nuno Gonçalo Rodrigues) and Crusaders (NT Connections) produced at India’s National Centre for Performing Arts.
Screen work includes a number of short films produced at national and international film festivals, two episodes of Black Camel’s hit crime drama, Annika and several episodes of River City.
The radio drama This Thing of Darkness Series 3, written by Frances with monologues by Eileen Horne was Finalist of the New York Festivals Best Drama Podcast and is currently available to listen to on BBC Sounds.
Selected publications
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Still
Poet, F., 5 Aug 2021, London: Nick Hern Books. 52 p. (NHB modern plays)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Crusaders
Poet, F., 25 Jun 2020, National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young People. MethuenResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Words Will Come: Down The Hatch
A. C. Smith, Deborah Bruce, Nell Leyshon & Christopher William Hill, 14 Dec 2018, Bloomsbury.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology