Jemma Kennedy

Jemma Kennedy is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter with extensive teaching experience at City Lit, the Arvon Foundation and various universities. She was Pearson Playwright at the National Theatre in 2010/11 and became part of the inaugural Soho 6 writing scheme with the Soho Theatre Company in 2012. She has two screenplays in development and her novel "Skywalking "was published by Penguin / Viking in 2002. Jemma has recently been involved as a writing mentor and judge for the National Theatre's inaugural New Views National Playwriting Competition for young writers. Her play "Don t Feed The Animals" has been commissioned for the National Theatre Connections 2013 and "The Grand Irrationality" will be produced at the Lost Theater, Los Angeles in early 2013."