Phoebe McIntosh

Phoebe McIntosh is an author, playwright and actor based in London.

As a performer her works spans stage, screen and audio. She wrote and performed in a sell- out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, followed by her solo show, Dominoes, which toured the South East and London in 2018. She has been a selected writer on the Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab, Tamasha Playwrights and Talawa Firsts and her play, The Soon Life, won the highly commended prize at the Tony Craze Awards 2020 as well as being longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award 2020, the Bruntwood Prize 2022 and the Theatre503 International Playwrighting Award 2023. Phoebe won a place on the inaugural Tamasha x Hachette creative writing programme and was also selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow programme in 2020. Her novel Dominoes, adapted from the solo show, was published by Chatto & Windus (UK) and Penguin Random House (US) going on to be been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024, and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025.