About Me

Fiona Padfield is published by Oberon Books, Bloomsbury and Tangerine.

Her career began as a stripper in the strip clubs of Soho. TV credits followed: Shrinks ITV, Big Battalions C4, Joy to the World BBC & Albert Hall, The Good Sex Guide ITV Series 1 & 2, Van der Valk, ITV.

She produced, wrote and acted in her one woman show DESERTION: The Love Letters of Ka Cox and Rupert Brooke at the Peterhouse Theatre, Cambridge. Following this, STRIP was produced by the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by Peter James. She then studied for a year on David Edgar's MA in Playwriting where she began SNAPSHOTS which was staged in the main house at the Manchester Royal Exchange, directed by Braham Murray. She was invited to attend a BBC Sparks Weekend and wrote The Enclosure for Radio 3, The wire.

In 2000 she won a Wingate Scholarship for her play The Millennium Tapestry. She has received commissions from Hampstead Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Carlton Warner Sisters and was selected to write a film with CYFLE/BBC/S4C Academy. Fiona is published by Oberon Books, Bloomsbury, Tangerine and Casa Forte Press.

She is currently developing Allegation 21 for the 2024/25 Mercury Theatre - Paines Plough scheme. Her play Lovedale is going into R&D autumn 2024 at the Mercury studio culminating in a ‘sharing’ in Colchester followed by a 'producer showcase' at the Key theatre in Peterborough.

She regularly runs extracts of work in progress at the WGGB scratch nights, Studio Two, Norwich Theatre. She is re-emerging after a lengthy hiatus due to sickness.