Meet Jamie Lakritz - award-winning playwright
Jamie Lakritz is a playwright from Surrey. His plays include the award-winning play The Start of Something, The Fire Stack and The Great Christmas Cracker Heist (published by Lazy Bee Scripts). His work is primarily produced by his own theatre company, Brightlight Theatre. He won Best New Play at Woking Drama Festival 2016 for The Start of Something, which subsequently went on to win the Derek Jacobi Playwriting Award. He was also nominated for Best New Play at Woking Drama Festival 2017 for his play The Fire Stack. He has studied playwrighting on a short course with the National Theatre, under Ryan Craig. Jamie is also Artistic Director of award-winning community theatre group Brightlight Theatre.