Fran Bushe

She/ Her
Fran is an award-winning writer and lyricist. Her play A Gig for Ghosts won Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award in 2020 and was named as a Guardian Top Pick of 2022 after it’s full run at Soho Theatre. She was Writer in Residence at Soho Theatre during the month of November 2022.

Her comedy pilot The Diary of My Broken Vagina was produced by Channel 4 as a Comedy Blap and Fran has been awarded a BFI Young Audiences Content Fund for Development.

Credits

Film

The Go Between Shiny Button Productions, commissioned by Shiny Button

TV
The Diary of My Broken Vagina Channel 4. Produced by Shiny Button Directed by Theresa Varga. Available on All4

Laughing at Salad. Comedy Central .Three sketches


A Gig for Ghosts, Soho Theatre, Directed by Ria Parry
Winner of the Tony Craze Prize, Top 20 Longlist for the Verity Bargate Award Guardian, Top Pick of 2022, Offie Finalist

Ad Libido
Soho Theatre main house 2021
Soho Theatre Upstairs 2019.
Pleasance Edinburgh 2018 Directed by Ellen Havard
Published by Salamander Street
★★★★ The Guardian, Listed as one of the best shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe by The Guardian

Alive Day (Short)
The Bunker, Directed by Lakesha Arie Angelo.
Southwark Playhouse, Directed by Hannah Jones. New Diorama Theatre, Directed by Holly Wilson.

Stallions (co-writer)
Soho Theatre.
Underbelly, Edinburgh Directed by Lee Griffiths.

Woof (co-writer)
Soho Theatre. Underbelly, Edinburgh Directed by Lee Griffiths.

The Site
The Roundhouse, Directed by Thomas Hescott.
Winner of The Hampstead Theatre ‘Heat & Light - Write a Play’ competition

Aftershocks
The National Theatre Studio
Selected as one of twelve “young writers to watch” by The National Theatre, Fran’s work was developed under poet Inua Ellams, and performed in the NT Studio

Books
My Broken Vagina, Hodder & Stoughton, Writer and illustrations. Hardback published 2021, paperback 2022. Edited by Myfanwy Moore

Training

Soho Theatre Comedy Lab
The Royal Court Young Writers’ Program: Tutored by Leo Butler
Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab
Criterion New Writing Program:Tutored by Greg Mosse
Lyric Young Writers: Tutored Simon Stephens and Bola Agbaje