Rachel Causer

Rachel Causer is a writer with Cornish and Brummie roots, developing original projects across television, film and theatre.

She is currently one of eight writers on Dancing Ledge’s Screenwriting Mentorship Scheme, mentored by Tom Edge, and will join the Royal Court Writers’ Group 2026. She was also selected for the BBC Studios New Voices Story Conference for EastEnders (2025), and her new play GESTATION was First Runner-Up for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025.

She was previously one of twelve writers chosen for Channel 4Screenwriting 2023.

Her play PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO SHARE is now in development for television with Double Dutch Productions. The stage production was a Popcorn/BBC Writing Award and OFFIE finalist, with runs at Theatre503 and the Pleasance Courtyard and Islington venue (Edinburgh Fringe 2022). It is published by Methuen Drama, has been translated and performed internationally, with the pilot adaptation being selected as a finalist for Filmmarket Hub’s Pilot Screenwriting Competition 2021.

Earlier work includes the OFFIE-finalist WHEN IT HAPPENS and her debut multimedia play LIPPY (Brighton Fringe Best Newcomer Finalist), alongside short commissions at The Bunker Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and Theatre503.

Rachel has also completed The Criterion Theatre’s New Writing and Further Development Groups, trained in Filmmaking at MetFilm where she wrote and directed her debut short, STALEMATE, and trained as an actor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
She is the founder of Scatterjam, where she works with a team of associate artists to create and produce bold, women-led new work.