Stephen Wyatt is the only writer to have won the Tinniswood Award for best radio drama script twice – for Memorials to the Missing in 2007 and Gerontius in 2011. He has written over twenty original scripts for radio and numerous dramatisations including Dante's The Divine Comedy. He's also written for television (Doctor Who and Casualty) and his theatre work has been seen everywhere from London's West End to the Bubble Theatre's touring tent. In conjunction with New Writing South and the University of Sussex, he created the UK's first online radio drama course in 2009. His novel, The World and His Wife, was published in 2019.

William Wycherley (1641–1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

Coral Wylie is a writer, performer and theatre maker from West London.

Their work for the stage includes Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew (Bush Theatre, London, 2025) and Entomology (longlisted for the 2022 Tony Craze Award).

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Danny Lee Wynter is an actor, activist, playwright and columnist. He is the founder of Act For Change, the campaign group that helped change representation across the live and recorded arts. His plays include BLACK SUPERHERO (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2023).

Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. Her books include the bestselling novel A Little Life (2015), which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize.

David Yazbek is an American writer, composer and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010) and The Band's Visit (2017).

Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian playwright, filmmaker, screenwriter and poet. She was born in Moscow and grew up in Damascus. Her plays include Goats (Royal Court, 2017). She has published a volume of poetry, Peacefully We Leave Home, and was resident poet at Poets House, New York, in 2015 where her book Three Poems was published in English.

James Yeatman is a theatre director and writer. He co-runs award-winning Kandinsky Theatre Company with Lauren Mooney.

For Kandinsky, theatre includes: More Life (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2025); SHTF (Schauspielhaus Wien) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Royal Exchange); The Winston Machine, Dinomania, Trap Street, Still Ill, Dog Show (New Diorama); Limehouse Nights (Limehouse Town Hall).

For the Royal Court Theatre: The Kid Stays In The Picture (Co-Director and Writer) and Posh (Assistant Director).