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Jane Upton

Jane Upton

Jane Upton is a playwright whose work includes: (the) Woman (New Perspectives / Royal & Derngate tour, 2025); The Price of Home (Paines Plough & Derby Theatre); Finding Nana (New Perspectives, 2017 & 2018); All the Little Lights (George Devine Award, 2016; Fifth Word UK tour, 2017); Watching the Living, an adaptation of two Daphne du Maurier short stories (New Perspectives Theatre UK tour, 2014); Swimming (Menagerie Theatre Hotbed Festival, 2013/Soho/Edinburgh Festival, 2014); and Bones (Fifth Word, Edinburgh Festival/UK tour 2011–2012).

She was the winner of the 2024 Adopt a Playwright Award run by Off West End Plays and Playwrights.

Author photo by David Hammond

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All the Little Lights

All the Little Lights

By Jane Upton

A poignant, moving and darkly funny play about young girls slipping through the cracks in society. Joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

(the) Woman

(the) Woman

By Jane Upton

A fiercely funny and brutally honest play about motherhood, premiered in a touring production by New Perspectives in 2025.