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  NATALIE BEECH

AWARDS & PROGRAMMES

  • DCC Playwriting Prize Winner 2025
  • Women X Film Festival: Script Competition Winner 2024
  • Warner Brothers Discovery Access Northern Writers 2024
  • BBC Writers Midlands & Northern Voices 2024
  • LOOP Audio Fund 2023
  • BFI Script Lab 2023
  • Channel 4 Writing for Television Award 2022

CURRENT

  • Bears Bears Bears (2026) - Winner of the DCC Playwriting Award 2025. Full-length play premiering at Contact Theatre in May 2026. Directed by Connor Goodwin.

  • Cass & Roya - Writer (2026) - BFI-funded short film currently in post-production.

  • Blackpool Born Into Care: Hope's Story - Writer - Made by Mortals audio drama commission.

  • Temporary - Writer - Made by Mortals audio drama commission.

THEATRE

  • International Businessmen (2026) - Short play selected for Richochet Theatre's Rapid Response night in May 2026.

  • Bears Bears Bears (2026) - Winner of the DCC Playwriting Award 2025. 

  • Spirits (2022) - Short comedy play for The Board x Box of Tricks new writing night at the Lions Den Theatre in Manchester.

  • Hallowed Ground (2019) - Short feminist comedy monologue selected for the Young Pleasance Playwriting Competition 2019. 

  • Quiet Earthquakes (2017) - Commissioned play for the HeforShe campaign. Performed in several locations across the University of Leicester campus. Watch a YouTube video about the production here.

  • Currents (2017) - Commissioned short play for De Montfort University's Student Union addressing gender discrimination.

  • The Island (2016) - Commissioned short play for DMU's Sexual Violence & Domestic Violence Research Network for their conference on Coercion and Control.

  • Collegiate (2016) Debut, full-length play exploring lad culture and sexual violence in British universities. Directed by Brigitte Adela.

  • ITAA (2016) Short play on internet/technology addiction performed as part of Story City Festival 2016's TenMinuteTales event.

  • Collegiate (2016) Short play selected for Sheer Height Theatre Company's Women Redressed night at Arcola Theatre, March 2016.

  • Unearthed (2015) - Short play selected for Unmasked Theatre's Night of New Writing at The Hawth Theatre.

SCREEN

  • Cass & Roya (2026) - Writer
    BFI-funded short film directed by Alice Cornelia, currently in post-production.

  • Mother Midnight (2022) - Contributing Writer
    Contributing writer on Mike Beech's debut feature film.

  • Floating (2017) - Writer & Director
    10-minute film commissioned by De Montfort University's Sexual Violence and Domestic Violence Research Network about adolescent to parent violence, for educational use.

  • Pineocchio (2016) - Writer
    Short comedy film created for interdisciplinary film and performance Christmas event Commentary about a fake Christmas tree who wants to be a real one. Screened/performed at Phoenix Leicester.

AUDIO

  • SCAN - Writer - Audio pilot in development with Free Turn and Screen Yorkshire as part of the LOOP Audio Scheme.
  • Blackpool Born Into Care - Writer - Made by Mortals audio drama commission, set for release in 2026.
  • Temporary - Writer - Made by Mortals audio drama commission, set for release in 2026.
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