Judy Upton

Judy Upton is a British Playwright. She collaborated with Lisa Goldman at The Red Room Theatre Company and also wrote radio plays for the BBC.

Ashes and Sand was adapted into film for which she won the 1994 George Devine Award. She also won the Verity Bargate Award for Bruises

Her stage plays include: ASHES AND SAND, Royal Court; THE SHOREWATCHERS’ HOUSE, Red Room at BAC; BRUISES, Royal Court; SUNSPOTS, BAC; PEOPLE ON THE RIVER, The Finborough; TO BLUSHER WITH LOVE, Channel Theatre; KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, Red Room at BAC; CONFIDENCE, Birmingham Rep; SLIDING WITH SUZANNE, Royal Court/Out Of Joint; TEAM SPIRIT, National Theatre; THE GIRLZ, Richmond Orange Tree; GABY GOES GLOBAL, New Wimbledon Theatre; FLICK TO KICK, Cambridge Hotbed Festival; NOCTROPIA, Hampstead Theatre; LAZARUS for the Durham Mystery Plays and COME TO WHERE I’M FROM for Paines Plough. Judy has also had seven original plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4, including 2019’s Play Of The Week THE BULBUL WAS SINGING.

Judy’s first feature film ASHES AND SAND was produced by Open Road Films/Matador Pictures. It was directed by Bob Blagden and starred Nick Moran and Lara Belmont. ALL IN THE MIND, an original 15 minute TV drama was screened on BBC1. She won ‘Cobravision: Make Your Mark In Film’ with a web series: MY IMPRISONED HEART that was produced and premiered at the Edinburgh Festival as a 50 minute film and shown on Propeller TV. A ten-minute screenplay EXPOSED was produced as one of Screen South’s Digital Shorts, directed by Sue Dunderdale. Judy has received Development Funding from Creative England for a feature length screenplay, a thriller ATLANTA-GEORGIA.