Welcome to powerplay

Hi, I’m Amy.

I’m your playwriting cheerleader.

I know you can do this thing.

I know you can finally write your play and see it on stage.

Even when it feels like

  • There are not enough hours in the day.

  • Your scriptwriting and characters you put down on paper are… rubbish.

  • There’s no point spending time writing a play when there’s so much adulting to do.

  • You have no idea if, how or when any play you write will ever be performed.

And believe me, I get it. I’ve been there too.

I’m a seasoned playwright, a certified creative coach, founder of Doll’s Eye Theatre Company & Charitable Trust and in the past, I have also been…

  • Working in high-status jobs where I excel, but they do nothing to feed my creativity (and I can feel it wilting inside).

  • Starting scripts, getting excited about the stories in my head, yet never having the confidence to finish the words on paper.

  • Struggling with my neurodivergent brain to juggle life (working, parenting, friending, relationship-ing) and being an artisic wee soul that desperately needs an outlet.

I have worked in and out of theatre for 20 years as an actor, director, producer and dramaturg. Amongst others I have worked at Southwark Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre, Oldham Coliseum, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Keswick Theatre By The Lake, and The Arcola.

I know what it takes to write a play and get it on stage.

I know how to help you become a playwright, despite the voices in your head telling you that ship has sailed.

I know that we can carve out the time together to get your play written, even though you think right now that you can’t fit it in.

Now…

Pick up your pen and let’s open the red curtain together.

Your Play, Your Way

PowerPlay work with clients to choose an ideal London theatre venue that suits their story, to perform the production for one night.

This might be an intimate black box theatre or a decadent private members club.

We work closely with clients to discuss not only what they want for the night of magical theatre, but also what best serves the story they have written.

Not in London? We’ve got you. As well as our platinum package, we also offer our silver and gold packages to help you write the play and give you all the tools and confidence you need to produce it yourself. Head to our services page for more info.

Powerplay work with professional actors, dramaturgs, directors and producers.

Each PowerPlay company is formed according to your script, informed by story need.

We meticulously create your company and producing team to suit you.

You don’t need to wait for “industry approval”.

your bespoke playwriting journey starts here.

Here are some of the Powerplay actors who could bring your script for stage to life… 

Please note- PowerPlay have a catalogue of acting talent at our fingertips. If you don’t see the characters from your script below, fear not… this is just a taster of the acting talent ready and waiting to perform your finished script.

the Powerplay actors

  • Nicola May-Taylor

    Theatre Credits include: And Then There Were None - UK/Ireland Tour (Fiery Angel), Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse), Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre) Rutherford And Son (National Theatre), The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre) Storylab, The Kilburn Passion (Kiln Theatre), BirthRight, Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre), Takeaway (Theatre 503), Chicken Palace (Theatre Royal Stratford East)

    TV credits include: Eastenders (BBC), Doctors (BBC)

    Short film: Adjustments, Love

    Awards: Best Actress - British Short Film awards 2022 for her role in short film 'Adjustments' which she also wrote.

  • Louise Bangay

    Theatre credits include: Just Stop Extinction Rebellion (White Bear ) Nomination, 2024 Offies for Lead Performance in Play, People Places & Things (Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio), La Cage Aux Folles (Park Theatre), Handbagged (as Q, the Queen, New Vic, Stoke), and Penetration (Cockpit). Theatre credits also include Trevor Nunn’s productions of Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester) and the original cast production of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal Court & Duke of York’s); for the Royal Shakespeare Company Poor Beck (Other Place & Soho Theatre), Macbeth, King Lear (RST & West End); Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court/Alberry); The Glass Menagerie (New Vic, Stoke & Oldham Coliseum); Romeo and Juliet (Northcott, Exeter).

    TV credits includes: Whitstable Pearl; Casualty, Midsomer Murders, Doctors (Nomination, British Soap Awards) Holby City, The Bill, Holby Blue and the video game Erica (PS4 /Sony).

    Film Credits include: Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop, My Christmas Date with Dad, The York Witches Society and The Protector.

  • Ashley Sean Cook

    Theatre credits include: The Gruffalo live! (West end and international), The goal! (Hereford Courtyard),Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/ Frankenstein (Blackeyed Theatre / national tour) and "Might Never Happen" (Kings Head Theatre).

    TV credits include: Trigger point S2 (ITV)

  • Jonathan Dryden-Taylor

    Theatre credits includes: The Normal Heart, As You Like It, Our Country’s Good, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, King Lear, Othello, The Captain of Kopenick (all National Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Curve and London Palladium), Billy Elliot (Curve), Animal Farm (National Tour), The Butterfly Lion, Travels with my Aunt (both Chicester Theatre), King Lear (US Tour), A Little Night Music, The Crucible, The Beggar’s Opera, Alice in Wonderland (all Storyhouse), The Hartelepool Monkey (National Tour), A Tale of Two Cities (Touring Consortium), While The Sun Shines (Bath), Journey’s End, But First This (both Watermill), Toxic Bankers (LST/ Lowry), Scott Mills The Musical (BBC Radio 1/ Edinburgh), Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, Chimneys, Lend Me A Tenor, A Small Family Business, The Government Inspector (all Pitlochry), The Road To The Sea (Orange Tree), Troilus and Cressida (Old Vic).

    TV and film includes: Blitz, Highway to Hell, That Mitchell and Webb Look.

    Radio: Numerous plays and serials for BBC Radio.

    Writing for TV and radio includes: That Mitchell and Webb Sound/ Look (Radio 4/BBC2), Ten Things I Hate About… (Channel 5), Love Lessons, The Eliza Stories (BBC Radio 4).

  • Harold Addo

    Theatre credits include: Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads (Chichester Festival Theatre and Minerva), A Place For We at (Park Theatre), Holes (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour) Spring Awakening (Young Vic); Billy Budd, Wozzeck and Don Carlo (Royal Opera House), Hamlet and Treasure Island (Iris Theatre); Womb (Bush Theatre), The Gift of the Gab (White Bear Theatre), Beyond the Blue (Stratford East), Waiting For Godot (Sweaty Palms Productions/site specific) Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre/UK Tour), Ella Enchanted (Edinburgh Fringe) The 49 (Theatre N16), Cloud Tectonics and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Corbett Theatre), 4.48 Psychosis (Etcetera Theatre), Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes (Bread and Roses).

    TV credits include: Pscyhed, LockedUpAbroad/BangedUp Abroad and PREMature.

    Film credits include: PhatNav (Sendcake Film), Beatrice, Urban Decay.

    Radio credits include: From Fact to Fiction (BBC Radio 4) The Man and his Soul (Young Vic), No Dogs (Flintlock Theatre),

  • Blair McAlpine

    Blair has extensive experience working with new writing as an actor, director and dramaturg. She has worked closely alongside Sonia Jalaylay, Isley Lynn, Molly Taylor, Dipo Baruwa-Etti and Jennifer Farmer in The Donmar’s Local Writer’s programme. She was an original workshop member of Doll’s Eye Theatre’s Birthright, which went on to have a run at The Calder Bookshop Theatre. She worked on Intimacy Co-ordinator Ita O’Brien’s ‘Does My Sex Offend you?’ at the Barbican, which fed into the foundations of O’Briens Intimacy on Set guidelines. As part of collective The Female Edit she fostered a creative relationship with poet and playwright Elle Dillon-Reams. As a member of Director’s Cut, Blair regularly works with writer’s and has built lasting creative relationships with a number of playwright’s including Mark Daniels of Matchstick Theatre.