Play On Presents
Play On: Autumn Edition
Seasonal showcases of the UK’s best TV, Stage and Film writing talent in the heart of Brighton.
Shows you won’t forget: Play On.
Tues 11th November 2025, The Actors 8pm
This autumn, Play On are back with their seasonal short-play nights, showcasing some of the UK’s best writing talent from TV, Stage and Film, brought to life by stellar directors and performers from across Brighton & Hove. As the nights get longer, we’ll be bringing you a line up of dark and delectable new works that honour the season, from the spooky to the downright grotesque. Our first event was a sell out, so be sure to get you tickets early for this one!
Play On will be an evening of perfectly formed, short, sharp and hilarious shows you won’t forget.
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Writers: Autumn
Abi Zakarian is an award-winning British-Armenian playwright. Her plays include Welfare, Derby Theatre; Age is Revolting, for National Theatre Connections; Lullaby, Shakespeare’s Globe, and I Am Karyan Ophidian for the Sam Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe. Her play Fabric won a Scotsman Fringe First award, and she won the Vault Festival People’s Choice Award for I Have A Mouth And I Will Scream. Her play Fabric (as Hilos) is currently running in Mexico City. Abi co-founded and runs the horror theatre company Terrifying Women. She is co-creator of Finding Large Monuments to be Destroyed, a new immersive play which begins a UK tour in 2026. Her first short film, Pomegranate, is currently on the festival circuit while her second short, MEAT, is in post-production. Abi is under commission with A.T.C and developing various TV and film projects.
Jodi Gray is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter, published by Nick Hern Books. Her plays have been performed in venues across the UK – including runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Brighton Fringe and VAULT Festival – and internationally in Ireland, Germany, the US and Australia. She is currently in pre-production with her first feature film, Big Bad, which she has adapted from her own play.
Adam Barnard is a playwright, theatremaker and game designer – among other distractions. Plays include buckets (many productions worldwide including London Orange Tree and Glasgow Citizens), Invisible (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Too Small To Be A Planet (Latitude, finalist for Deutsche Kindertheaterpreis), Closer Scrutiny (Orange Tree), Is Now A Good Time? (Covid-era telephone play) and The Day The Earth Didn’t Die (Audible series). He has most recently been creating a multi-player augmented reality immersive experience called Lina.
Jamie D. Huxley is an artist, writer, filmmaker and poet. He shares his skull with The Energy Fool. Inside, they stitch together ragged electronic pop music. Plays include Teenager of the Year, The Machine Dreams, The Imago Stage, The Last Curiosity, Schwarzenjammer and Mythomania (shortlisted by the The Royal Court). His comedy on BBC Radio 4. Our Sky Is Made of Rock was performed at Italy’s Trasformatorio art festival. His film The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of was selected for the BFI-funded Immersive Fiction Comedy Lab and horror-comedy The Thread is unravelling soon on a screen near you…
Declan Feenan is writer and musician from Ireland and lives in London. He has had plays performed in Bush Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, York Theatre Royal, the Edinburgh Festival as well as productions in USA and Ireland. He releases original music under the moniker Spy From Moscow.
Patrick Moy trained at RADA. He has worked with companies including the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, Abbey Theatre Dublin. Roles in recent years have included Truman Capote in Andrew O’Hagan’s one-man show ‘The Ballad of Truman Capote’, Michael Collins in Fishamble’s ‘The Treaty’ by Colin Murphy, Stanislaus Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s final play ‘Joyce’s Women’ at the Abbey. He has narrated over 30 audiobooks, recently winning an Audiofile Earphones award. He has been highly commended in the Bridport Short Story Prize, shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize. This production with Play on will be his debut short play.
Spring 2025: Full Credits
Soyuz 40 by Kenny Emson
Co-Directed by Beth Pitts and Natalie Scott
Robert: Patrick Moy
Voice 1: James Cooney
Voice 2: Tigger Blaize
Voice 3: Sarah Milton
Pa(Rental) by Sarah Milton
Directed by Rosa Crompton
Polly: Lia Burge
Ian: Neal Craig
Suzie: Mattie Wioland
Solicitor: Katherine Kotz
Is It Time by Pete Strong
Written & Performed by Pete Strong
Body Count by Gabriella Beasley
Written & Performed by Gabriella Beasley
Lucy & Lucia by Jodi Gray
Co-Directed by Beth Pitts and Natalie Scott
Lucy: Katherine Kotz
Lucia: Lia Burge
Produced by: Jon Cooper & Beth Pitts
Technical: Jon Cooper
Play On are available to discuss the project and can be reached by our contact form
Press pack and photos available on request.