Grace Joy Howarth is a playwright, producer, and author from London. Her work often explores the nuanced, human stories within overwhelming issues, such as the climate crisis, feminism, and class.
Her work has been shortlisted and longlisted for the BBC Writersroom, the New Diorama Theatre Untapped Award, the Phoebe Frances Brown Award, the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, the Masterclass Pitch Your Play Award, the British Youth Music Theatre Award, the New York Plays for Young Audiences showcase, and the Orange Tree Writers Collective. She is an associate artist with Patch Plays theatre company, and a co-artistic director and founder of Inseparable Productions.
Previous theatre credits include: The Inseparables (Finborough Theatre, 2025. Assessors’ Choice’, OffWestEnd Awards, OffWestEnd Award Nominated, Standing Ovation Award Nominated), Blood on Your Hands (Southwark Playhouse, 2024. OffWestEnd Award Nominated, Cockpit Theatre 2022), Birdie’s Adventures in the Animal Kingdom (Harrow Arts Centre, 2022, Greenhouse Theatre, 2023, R&D at Polka Theatre, 2022), Orange Dust (co-written with Joshua Lewis and workshopped at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2023), and Radioboy (co-written with Daniella Livingstone and workshopped at Park Theatre, 2018).
Short film credits include: Blood on Your Hands (London Independent Film Festival 2025, San Pedro International Film Festival) and upcoming An Unnatural Pairing (Produced by the charity Surge)
Radio credits include: Until We Can’t See the Sky (Resonance FM, Chapel FM).
Her short stories have been published in multiple literary journals and magazines, such as the H.G. Wells Anthology, The National Archives, Squaw Pies Publishing, Be Animal, Jerry Jazz Musician, Selenite Press, Livina Press, Miniskirt Magazine, Londemere Lit, Spaceports & Spidersilk, and Dollar Store Mag.