Anya Reiss

Paradox House presents… Episode 7 of Scripted hosted by Daisy Lewis.
This week Daisy sat down with one of the U.K’s brightest writers in Anya Reiss to talk through all things scripted. We also bump up the excitement with her upcoming TV show, ‘Becoming Elizabeth’, that is being distributed via STARZ!
Anya Reiss began her writing career in theatre with her debut play Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. She won the Most Promising Playwright Award at both the Critics Circle and Evening Standard awards that year along with Best New Play at the TMAs. Her follow up play The Acid Test was staged at the same venue the next year and her National Theatre Connections play Forty-Five Minutes was in 2013. Her original version of The Seagull, directed by Russell Bolam, was staged in 2012 at Southwark Playhouse, and they worked on two further modern-day Chekhovs together at the same venue and then St James Theatre. Since then her version of Spring Awakening toured with Headlong and an adaptation of Oliver Twist was at the Regents' Park Theatre in 2017. Anya has worked in television, a core writer on Eastenders and a lead writer on series one of Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge. She is currently writer-producer on Starz's Becoming Elizabeth which will air next year.
Enjoy!