Bio
Maddy Accalia (she/they) is an award-winning writer and producer from Brighton.
Maddy’s plays have been performed at the Roundhouse, Vault Festival, Gilded Balloon, North Wall and Norwich Theatre Stage 2. They have a First Class degree in Scriptwriting and Performance from the University of East Anglia and was shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
As a poet, they have featured at Off the Chest, Speakeasy and Sofar Sounds London, and been published in Bath Magg and Ink Sweat and Tears. She was a Roundhouse Resident Artist from 2021-2023 and has previously been a member of the North Wall Catalyst Playwriting Programme, Apples and Snakes Writing Room and BBC Words First. In 2023, Maddy was commissioned by University College Hospital London to write a poem for Our NHS Stories; a national campaign celebrating 75 years of the NHS.
In 2024, Maddy was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England to develop their fiction writing, under the mentorship of Saba Sams. They are currently writing their debut novel.
Photography by Helen Murray.