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Katherine Chandler

Katherine is an award-winning Welsh writer working extensively in theatre, film, radio and television.

Twice a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize with her plays ‘Before it Rains’ and ‘Parallel Lines’. Katherine was awarded the judges prize in the Bruntwood prize for playwriting for her play ‘Bird’. Bird was coproduced by Manchester Royal Exchange and Sherman Theatre and received critical acclaim.
Her play ‘Lose Yourself’ was described by The Guardian as a ‘devastating night out’.

Katherine was the inaugural winner of the BBC and National Theatre Wales, Wales Drama Award and has worked a number of times with both companies. BBC iPlayer released Katherine’s first film ‘Tag’, in the drama launch of BBC3/BBC iPlayer. She has worked with BBC drama on both EastEnders and Casualty and was a series writer on the award winning BBC 4 radio drama ‘Tracks’.

Katherine has adapted a number of works for children including The Silly Kings, Princess and the Pea and The Ugly Duckling.

Currently Katherine is working with companies such as The Royal National Theatre, National Theatre Wales, Clean Break, Birmingham Rep and Theatr Clwyd.