Jamaican-born Patricia Cumper is a playwright who also writes, produces and directs audio drama. She was Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company for six years and has won audio drama awards — including one for Outstanding Contribution — for her original work and dramatisation, adaptations and abridgements of the work of, among others, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Marie Ndiaye. She has also had one novel and two short stories and a collection of plays published. She is currently producing Faith, Hope and Glory for BBC Radio 4, is a trustee of Utopia Theatre Company and Chair of the board of the Arvon Foundation. She co-produces and presents an Arts Council England-funded podcast about Black British writers, The Amplify Project.
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