Suzanne Heathcote

Suzanne Heathcote is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter based in the UK and US. Her playwriting career began at the Royal Court Theatre when her first play, Concrete Fairgrounds, was selected as part of the Royal Court Young Writers Festival. She has since had work developed by Nabokov Theatre, The Bush, Drywrite, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, IAMA Theatre, Labyrinth Theater Company and The Atlantic, New York. She was a recipient of the New York Stage and Film Founders’ Award, a resident playwright for The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm and a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, NYC. Her other plays include: Plot 10 (Heat & Light Company, Hampstead Theatre); SO. (LabRats New York); I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile (New Neighborhood & Berkshire Theatre Group / Redtwist Theatre, Chicago).

Radio: Taken (BBC Radio 4).

For screen Suzanne has been a lead writer/executive producer for Killing Eve (Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Drama Series); a writer/executive producer for The Crowded Room; and is currently a writer/executive producer for an upcoming series for Peacock TV, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen. Other TV credits include: Fear The Walking Dead; See; Little Voice, and the forthcoming Amblin/Netflix film rewrite of Richard Osman’s book, The Thursday Murder Club.