Rachel Tookey

Rachel is a writer for stage and screen, based in the UK. Her latest play ‘SLIME’ recently received a rehearsed reading at the West End’s Criterion Theatre. It was a finalist for the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Fellowship at Juilliard, shortlisted for the Original Theatre playwriting prize and received a Peggy Ramsay Grant. Her short film ‘The Girl with the Haunted Vagina’ was commissioned by the British Film Institute in 2022, and her first television pilot has just been sent out to production companies. Her short play 'mudder' has been selected for the 49th Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (OOB). She studied English at Cambridge University where she became the first person to win both playwriting prizes. She is represented by The Artists Partnership in the UK.

Rachel is a writer for stage and screen, based in the UK. Her latest play ‘SLIME’ recently received a rehearsed reading at the West End’s Criterion Theatre. It was a finalist for the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Fellowship at Juilliard, shortlisted for the Original Theatre playwriting prize and received a Peggy Ramsay Grant. Her short film ‘The Girl with the Haunted Vagina’ was commissioned by the British Film Institute in 2022, and her first television pilot has just been sent out to production companies. Her short play 'mudder' has been selected for the 49th Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (OOB). She studied English at Cambridge University where she became the first person to win both playwriting prizes. She is represented by The Artists Partnership in the UK.

Scripts

mudder

by Rachel Tookey

Synopsis

In this surreal dramedy, a woman gives birth to her own mother.

Selected for the 49th Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (OOB).

In this surreal dramedy, a woman gives birth to her own mother.

Selected for the 49th Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (OOB).