Steve Waters

I am a playwright who works for stage, radio and screen; I am also very involved in the new playwriting scene and have written about the pedagogy of playwriting, the nature of plays and been a participant in shaping arts policy in this area; I have been described as ‘one of the UK’s most accomplished political playwrights’.

Having written The Contingency Plan, a diptych of plays in 2009 about climate change I have been at the forefront of artistic practice and reflection on climate change and was a co-convenor of the Writing and Science Project at UEA. I returned to climate change with my solo show 'In a vulnerable place' performed in 2014-2015 and an AHRC Leadership Fellowship funded leave called 'The Song of the Reeds: Dramatising Conservation' which is an 18 month long collaboration with Wicken Fen and Strumpshaw Fen nature reserves.