Anita Sullivan

Playwright

Anita Sullivan is an award-winning writer of radio and theatre plays. All her 60+ scripts have been staged or broadcast. Her radio plays are often recorded on location, her theatre work site-specific. She works collaboratively blending script, documentary and improvisation. She is also a digital storyteller, creating interactive narratives for video and VR. In 2023 End of Transmission (telling the story of HIV from the point of view of the virus) won a BBC Audio Drama Award, the Tinniswood Award and was a finalist for the Writers' Guild Award. Her theatre play Model Village toured the UK with New Perspectives Theatre (a miniature village rebels, choose your own ending). In January 2024 her Radio 4 serial Silos was broadcast: a future-fiction where human hibernation is used to reduce resource consumption. In November her OKRE/ BBC drama The Mosquito is broadcast to coincide with COP29: a mosquito carrying dengue and a lobbyist battle for a politician’s ear. In December her adaptation of The Girl of the Sea of Cortez by Peter Benchley (Jaws) explores the pressures on fishing communities and biodiversity.