Trish Cooke
Trish Cooke is an actress, children’s author and writer for theatre, TV, film and radio.
Theatre
For the National Theatre: Alterations
Other theatre includes: as writer, Pinocchio, Rapunzel (Great British Pantomime Award winner), Cinderella (Olivier Award nominee), Running Dream and Gulp Fiction at Stratford East; Back Street Mammy for Temba at the Lyric Hammersmith; and Left Hangin’ for Black Lives, Black Words at the Bush
TV
Doctors, EastEnders, PlayDays, The Tweenies, Pop Paper City, JoJo and Gran-Gran and Number One Newton Avenue
Radio
Single Plus One, Those Old Metal Things and Unspoken
Books
over 20 children’s titles, including So Much (voted one of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time by BBC Culture and Time Out), The Magic Callaloo, Tales from the Caribbean, King Kafu and the Moon and Full, Full, Full of Love
Awards
So Much – Smarties Book Prize, the Kurt Maschler Award and the WH Smith & She Magazine Award
Trish Cooke is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, a founding board member and commissioning editor for WritersMosaic (a division of the Royal Literary Fund) and was on the board for the Society of Authors Scriptwriters Group Committee.
In 2023, Trish Cooke completed an attachment at the National Theatre and she has been Writer in Residence at the Bush Theatre, BBC North, Liverpool Playhouse and Second Wave (Albany Empire).
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(Published February 2025)