Laura Wade

Laura Wade (Playwright) is an Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her National Theatre play Home, I’m Darling premiered at Theatr Clwyd in 2018 before playing at the National and in the West End, going on to win the award for Best New Comedy at the 2019 Olivier Awards. In 2018, Wade wrote a bold theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons for Chichester Festival Theatre, which subsequently played in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Previous plays include an adaptation of Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith and Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh); Posh (Royal Court Theatre, transferring into the West End at the Duke of York’s Theatre); Alice, a modern adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); and Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer, a play for voices originally performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra with music by Beethoven and Janacek (national tour of Australia, including the Sydney Opera House). Earlier plays include Colder Than Here, Other Hands (Soho Theatre), and Breathing Corpses, for which Wade won the prestigious George Devine Award (Royal Court Theatre). Wade’s screenplay The Riot Club, an adaptation of her 2010 stage play Posh, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, directed by Lone Scherfig and starring Max Irons, Sam Claflin,and Douglas Booth. Wade is an Executive Producer and lead writer for Rivals on Disney+, adapted from the novel by Jilly Cooper.