SALLY WOODCOCK was raised in Kenya and educated at Cambridge University, RADA and Kings College London. Woodcock has worked as a journalist, teacher and theatre practitioner, writing and producing comedies on the fringes of Edinburgh, London and New York. Woodcock also co-founded the Horseshoe Theatre Company which produced play texts for public exam students at theatres in Cambridge. Fanta Orange is Woodcock’s first full-length play and has been developed at RADA and the National Theatre Studio.

“Woodcock reveals layers of hypocrisy, prejudice and assumption” –Financial Times“The writing fizzes with ebullient phrases and heady ideas” –Evening Standard“Woodcock’s writing is daring, assured and often stingingly funny in this tale of a guilt-stricken Western do-gooder who wreaks as much havoc as many a colonial adventurer” –Time Out