Tommo Fowler
“Annie has cemented herself as one of the most important readers in our panel. She is brilliantly rigorous, incisive and thoughtful in her responses: she always expects the most from scripts, but balances that with a genuine empathy for the writer’s endeavour – she truly seeks to understand their aims and intentions with a play, and to shape her critique around that.
Annie is also (and this is what makes her such a fantastic collaborator) incredibly self-aware: she is open about her tastes and preferences, placing her own subjectivity in conversation with her analysis of a script. Though I ask this of all readers, there are few with the maturity to do it honestly as Annie. With four rounds of reading taking place over a period of nearly six months, I read over one thousand seven hundred reader responses to the plays submitted last year – and I very genuinely always most looked forward to Annie’s. She is as perceptive and generous a colleague as I could have hoped for across an often gruelling process, and would be honoured to work with her again.”
Tommo Fowler
Ex Literary Manager Paines Plough re Womens’ Playwriting Prize
