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Charlie Josephine is a writer, director and actor.

Their latest play, COWBOIS, has been announced as part of the RSC’s summer season for 2023. A “rollicking queer cowboy show”, the play will open in October at the Swan Theatre.

Recent work includes FLIES (Boundless Theatre), BIRDS AND BEES (Theatre Centre), ONE OF THEM ONES (Pentabus).

In Summer 2022, their play I, JOAN opened to great acclaim at Shakespeare’s Globe

Charlie is currently under commission for new plays with the RSC and NT Connections and is writing a play as the Headlong Writer-In-Residence. They are also developing a new feature biopic with Salon Pictures.

Amongst Charlie’s previous work, BITCH BOXER won the Soho Theatre Young Writers Award 2012, the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, the Holden Street Theatre’s Award 2013, and the Adelaide Fringe Award 2014. It was later developed as a feature with BBC Films.

Charlie’s play BLUSH enjoyed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it picked up The Stage Edinburgh Award 2016 then transferred to Camden People’s Theatre as part of the Calm Down Dear Feminist Festival. It toured throughout 2017, having opened at the Soho Theatre, and was developed for TV.

Their play POPS enjoyed a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival 2019 and then High Tide Festival. Charlie spent 2019 as a member of the Old Vic 12, and also wrote new play MOON LICKS for Paines Plough and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. It was performed at the Yard in June 2022.

Charlie’s plays BITCH BOXER, BLUSH and POPS are published by Oberon Books. I, JOAN, FLIES and BIRDS AND BEES are published by Concord Theatricals. Their audio drama MASSIVE is currently available at Audible.

For screen work, Charlie won the inaugural BBC Screenplay First Award, and in March 2017 was named on the BBC New Talent Hotlist.