Chloe Palmer
Represented by Luke Speed at Insight Management
Writer for Stage and Screen
© Olivia Spencer
About
Chloe Palmer is an award-winning Neurodivergent writer from Maidstone, Kent.
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Chloe has recently been Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025, selected as the top 41 plays out of 1275 submissions. She is also part of the Future Light Scheme with Women's Prize for Playwriting and Paines Plough.
Chloe is co-artistic director of award-winning disability-led theatre company FlawBored. Their debut play It's a Motherf**king Pleasure, received huge critical and commercial success and has toured the UK and internationally. They were the recipients of the Untapped Award 2023 with New Diorama and Underbelly and were selected by Lyn Gardner as The Stage's Fringe Five, recognising five artists at Edinburgh Fringe who have made an impact. It's a Motherf**king Pleasure is in series development with Hat Trick. FlawBored are currently developing their second show, What's the F**king Point? with the Royal Court and received an Unlimited UK Open Award Commission.
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News
Chloe's play If the Sea Should Part has recently been longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Playwriting, presented by Paines Plough, Ellie Keel Productions and Sheffield Theatre.
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Selected as the best 41 plays out of 1275 submissions, Chloe will now be considered for the shortlist.
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As part of being on the longlist she is also a part of the Future Light program; a tripartite initiative offering bespoke artistic feedback, craft-focused training, and meaningful industry connections to the forty-one brilliant playwrights on this year’s longlist.
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In Development
THE LOCK-IN
Short
Charlie Catmull (Submarine) and Bart Stanislawek (BAFTA BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION WINNER: CRAB DAY)
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TV PROJECT- Funded development
The Story Collective
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IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE
Series development with Hat Trick
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GUTS
Feature
Ceci Mazzarella at Never Odd or Even Productions
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WHAT'S THE F**KING POINT?
Unlimited UK Open Awards winner 2024
In development for stage
dir. Josh Roche
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My Work
IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE
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(FlawBored: Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani, Chloe Palmer)
Dir. Josh Roche
Produced by Hannah Smith for FlawBored
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UK Tour (Soho Theatre London, New Diorama Theatre London, Bristol Old Vic, Leeds Playhouse, Northern Stage Newcastle)
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US Tour (Soho Playhouse NYC, Woolly Mammoth Washington DC, Arts Emerson Boston)
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Winner of the Untapped Award 2023 in partnership with New Diorama Theatre, Underbelly Edinburgh, Concord Theatricals and Nouveau Riche
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The Stage: Lyn Gardner's Fringe Five
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​***** - The Times "A stunningly Inventive Satire" ​
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Boston Globe "A remarkable whirlwind of a show" ​
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IF THE SEA SHOULD PART
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Dir. Imy Wyatt-Corner
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Hasting is a ghost town, beloved Stacey's Arcade sits on top a rotting pier and the council refuse to do anything about it. A reflection on grief, gentrification and belonging.
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025.
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Rehearsed Reading, Theatre Deli.
Emma Tracey- Carol
Christopher Hamilton- Rodney
Chanel Waddock- Emma
Shannon Ridgeway- Pat
Elle Shirkie- Ash
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