Emily Duchen @ The Writers Room 2026

Signature Script: 

She Threw Her Knickers at Kneecap by Emily Duchen

Directed by Elena Wolfson

After a whirlwind tour with Kneecap and new boyfriend Mo Chara, Evie’s broke and back at Mum’s. As Friday night dinner turns sour, can a H O O D survive in Hampstead Garden Suburb?

Short Play:

Butterfly by Emily Duchen

Directed by Inge-Vera Lipsius

As bombs rain down on the English countryside, Willow starts swimming and never stops.

A bit about Emily Duchen: 

Emily Duchen is a writer and comedy performer from North West London. Her work aims to unsettle the audience through humour, exposing the relationship between language and power and exploring the difficulty of carving out your identity. She trained in stand up with the Soho Theatre Comedy Lab.

More about The Writers' Room:

New Stories. New Playwrights. New Worlds.

Welcome to The Writers' Room. Twelve brand new plays by this year's MA Drama Writers, performed as staged readings at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

From Wednesday 1st – Friday 3rd July, our graduates’ scripts will transport you between Cornish mining villages steeped in myth and magic, the beaches of Yorkshire whaling towns centuries apart, women-only gyms empowering members to avenge injustices, and a Friday night dinner with some very unexpected guests.

Exploring environmental collapse, contemporary Jewish identity, motherhood, faith, who claims our narratives, how we fight to win them back and what it means to reshape the world around us, these diverse new plays ask the most urgent questions about what it is to be alive today.

We can’t wait to welcome you to the school for a fantastic celebration of new writing by our talented students.