Rae is a disabled writer, theatre maker and practitioner from Birmingham. She has written numerous plays that have been performed across the country including- A Beginner’s Guide to Widowhood and The Last (plastic) Straw. She has been commissioned by Women & Theatre and Birmingham Rep.
Her Peggy Ramsay/Film 4 award-winning play Bright Places toured the UK in 2024, to 4 and 5 star reviews, with a week at Soho London. Having just received further Arts Council funding, Bright Places plans to tour the UK again in Autumn 2026.
She was part of the 2019 Cohort of The Foundry, the Birmingham Rep Theatre’s respected Artist Development scheme. There she developed her auto biographical play Bright Places, an anarchic look at life with MS.
She has had work for screen in development with Left Bank Pictures, worked in a Netflix writer’s room and was part of the BBC -Cov voices 2021. Rae is alumni of Graeae Theatre’s ‘Beyond’ scheme. She was Writer in Residence at Birmingham Rep Theatre 2023, where she will be co-facilitating the Write Track writing course later in 2026.
She has collaborated with Aimee Berwick on several projects, including creating 21 mini audio plays for Cannock Chase Council. They continue to develop ideas for stage and screen together, including The Other Mothers focusing on a group of parents of SEND children navigating a very different parenthood.
Rae is co-founder and co-producer of Story Engine Birmingham; a successful Stage to Screen scratch night, developing and shining a light on writing talent in the Midlands.
