Poppy Corbett: Biography and Background

Poppy Corbett (born 18 August 1986) is a playwright, director and teacher of creative writing. She studied at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. She is the daughter of the poet and educationalist Pie Corbett.

Corbett's play Hatchling won Masterclass' inaugural Pitch Your Play competition and was given a reading on the Theatre Royal Haymarket's main stage. She is the author of numerous short plays, including a pantomime Robin Hood for Bigfoot Arts Education.

She is the co-author of The Enormous Book of Talk for Writing Games, a creative writing resource book for teachers. She is co-founder of Agent 160, a nationwide playwriting collective whose patrons include writers Timberlake Wertenbaker, Sharon Morgan and Kaite O'Reilly.

In 2019, contributed to the University of Bristol's AHRC-funded Creative Histories of Witchcraft project, the first attempt to document criminal cases involving witchcraft in long nineteenth century France. A monograph under the same name was written by Corbett, poet Anna Kisbey Compton and historian Will Pooley and published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

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