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Josephine writes fiction and for theatre, film and television.
Whilst studying English Literature at the University of Cambridge she worked as the seasons manager for the new-writing venue The Corpus Playroom, and also performed regularly in student theatre. In her final year she was awarded the Taylor Prize for academic excellence, and her thesis on Samuel Beckett and Dance was subsequently published in the Journal of Beckett Studies. Upon graduating, she wrote her first full-length play, Waterfront, in 2012.
Josephine began training as an actor at NIDA in 2013 where she wrote and performed in two spoken-word plays for the NIDA Student Festival (Do Mermaids Eat Ceviche? (2013) and Gay Paris! (2014)), both of which drew on her interest in poetry and performance. At the 2013 Berkelow Books Poetry Slam she won both Best Poem and the Peoples’ Choice Awards. She was then commissioned as writer and dramaturg on the final year NIDA show, Not Who I Was (2015), directed by Kate Champion (founding Artistic Director of Force Majeure).
Her work is heavily influenced by a love of improvisation and verbatim text. She was cast as the female protagonist in Charles Chintzer Lai’s short film Blue Monday, which drew on long-form improvisation for much of the dialogue. The film won the 2013 NoBudge Independent Cinema Award for Best Actress and Best Drama.
She is currently working on several scripts for television and recently performed her one woman comedy / musical show You Are Absolutely Fine (or Self Pity the Musical) at Edinburgh Fringe.
