Ella Hickson’s debut play Eight (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh) won a Fringe First Award, the Carol Tambor ‘Best of Edinburgh’ Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award. It transferred to the Trafalgar Studios, London, and PS122, New York. Her other plays include Precious Little Talent (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, and Trafalgar Studios, London); Hot Mess (Hawke&Hunter, Edinburgh, and Latitude Festival); Soup (Òran Mór at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); PMQ (Theatre503 and HighTide Festival); Boys (High Tide Festival, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and Soho, London) and The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and Tron Theatre, Glasgow). She completed a creative writing MA at the University of Edinburgh and spent a year working with the Traverse Theatre as their Emerging Playwright on Attachment. She was the 2011 Pearson Playwright in Residence for the Lyric Hammersmith and is the recipient of the 2013 Catherine Johnson Award. Her short film Hold On Me (dir. Samuel Abrahams) premiered at the 55th BFI London Film Festival.
