MOLLY ANNE SWEENEY
This is the website for Molly Anne Sweeney, scriptwriter, not Molly Sweeney, the play.
A work-in-progress performance of Help Me Learn will come to A Pinch of VAULT on 18th February.
ABOUT
I am a London based scriptwriter. My debut play Decommissioned premiered at the Pleasance Theatre in London.
I co-run a climate-focused theatre company, Wise Ram Theatre.
Teaching
25th October 2022: Wise Ram Theatre Company @ Glitch Bar
Hour-long session exploring using motivations when making theatre about the climate crisis.
8th October 2022: MAST Youth Company (ages 12 to 14)
Hour-long session exploring using genre to make theatre about the climate crisis.
27th September 2022: Wise Ram Theatre Company @ Glitch Bar
Hour-long session exploring using genre to make theatre about the climate crisis.
4th October 2018: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
An hour-long session to post-graduate students on sitcoms, focusing on situations and sitcom form.
Writing Schemes
Participant in the Criterion New Writers Group Spring 2022
Participant in the Bathway Playwrights Group
Participant in the 2020/21 Pen Pals writing scheme administered by Box of Tricks theatre.
Prizes
Finalist at the London Student Drama Festival 2018.
Longlisted for the 2017 High Tide Festival ‘First Commissions’ programme.
Longlisted for the 2016 Bread and Roses Playwrighting Prize.
Reviews
Decommissioned
"playful, heartfelt, educational, and intimate" Amy Tickner, London Pub Theatres
"gentle melancholy to Sweeney’s writing that is absorbing" John Cutler, The Reviews Hub
Peer Support
"In the generosity of these characters, and their shared experiences, they are able to unify to build one another back up. A wonderful picture of humanity and its diverse and complex design." Link
"She makes us interested in all the characters from the start and as the play goes on, we start to care about them too." Link
"Molly Sweeney’s Peer Support captures the feeling of uncertainty and loneliness currently felt.” Link
Help Me Learn
“of the most interesting ideas […] starts off as light-hearted fun […but] soon ramps up a gear.” Link
Script Reading
February 2021: The Undisposables’ Scratching the Surface
June 2020: The Undisposables’ Scratching the Surface
January 2019: Wolab’s Happy Ever After
Education
MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media – Distinction
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
BA (Hons) English Literature – 2:1
University of Exeter – Cornwall Campus
AUDIO
A Very Special Gift (short), directed by Natalie Winter.
Produced by Ragged Foils Productions.
Co-written with Alex Critoph, directed by Alessandra Davison
Produced by Virtual Collaborators
The Coolest Job (short), directed by George Naylor
Produced by The Key Worker Series
HELP ME LEARN (SHORT)
Help Me Learn (short), directed by Lorenzo Mason
Produced by Ragged Foils Production
COMPASSION FATIGUE (SHORT)
Compassion Fatigue (short), directed by Cordelia Galloway
Produced by Podium Drama