Georgina Duncan

Georgina is a writer and actor from East Lancashire, now based in London.

She graduated from LAMDA’s BA Acting programme in 2018 where she was a recipient of the Elizabeth May Florence Mills Scholarship.

In 2026 her play Sapling won The Women’s Prize for Playwriting and will receive its premiere at Sheffield Theatres in 2027 in a co-production with Paines Plough and Ellie Keel Productions.

Her work has been shortlisted and longlisted for various other writing competitions including BOLD Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Papatango, Theatre503 International Prize, and Druid Theatre Debuts. Her plays have also been highly commended by The National Theatre’s, Bush Theatre’s, and The Royal Court Theatre’s reading teams.

She has been a member of The Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab and Theatre503’s Wandsworth Writes groups and in 2024 she was commissioned to write a 20 minute short play, Penalty for Improper Use, for LAMDA’s MishMash Festival. The play was subsequently selected to have a rehearsed reading at Theatre503. She has recently been commissioned to write 40 minutes of a new play, Six Quilters Inside His Majesty’s Prison Thornbridge, for the same festival.

Georgina debuted and performed her one woman show ASBO BOZO at Riverside Studios with her theatre company Crafted by Fools earlier this year. The show was described as “Brilliantly witty, emotionally impactful and chillingly thought-provoking… simply stunning.” (Reviews Hub, 5 Stars) and “Unsettling, electric, and impossible to ignore” (Squirrp, 4 Stars).

She is excited by drama that champions working class and regional voices, that cracks the familiar open and undercuts darkness with humour. She likes to write tender stories about ordinary folk who find themselves in ‘ordinary exceptional circumstances’ and remind us of the quiet heroism in everyday life.