Theatre >
2025
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Steel (UK Tour)
Theatre by the Lake
Directed by Liz Stevenson
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Winner: Excellence in Touring,
UK Theatre Awards 2025
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All Change
Imitating the Dog / S&DR200​
Directed by Andrew Quick & Peter Brooks
in development
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Billy Liar
Adapted from the novel by
Keith Waterhouse​​​​​​​​
2024
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Steel
Theatre by the Lake
Directed by Liz Stevenson
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'Beautiful and breath-stopping...​an​​
unseen world of tenderness and​ desire
for characters whose lives are​​ otherwise
defined by poverty and​​ stifled hope'
The Stage
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Published by Nick Hern Books​
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Garsington Opera (Additional Text)
Directed by Christopher Alden
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2023
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Happy Meal
VAULT Festival / Northern Stage
Directed by Matt Harrison
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Speakeasy (UK Tour)
Southpaw Dance
Directed by Robby Graham
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2022
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​​​​​​​​​​​​The Weebles
Northern Stage
Directed by Mark Maughan
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JJJ
Acedia
Southpaw Dance / Sunderland Culture
Directed by Robby Graham
2020
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Encounter
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
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'It’s ridiculous, absurd, infuriating and,
at points, very, very sad. Which makes
it an almost perfect portrayal of...loss in the aftermath of an utterly unfathomable event. A jumbled-up clown dance through a blank space: that’s grief all right'
The Stage
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Northern Stage Young Company /
The Team (co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
2019
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Royal Exchange Theatre
Finalist: The Bruntwood Prize 2019
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The Letter Room
(co-written with the Company)
Directed by Meghan Doyle
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Northern Stage Young Company
(co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
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'Simply the best young people’s theatre I have seen in decades of sitting in darkened rooms with a twitching pen'
British Theatre Guide
2018
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Where Do We Stand?
Northern Stage Young Company
(co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
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Rat Boy
Live Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
Winner: Live Bursary 2018
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2017
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Live Theatre
Directed by Rachel Glover
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Curious Monkey / Sunday For Sammy
Directed by Amy Golding &
Toni McElhatton
2016
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Encounter
100° Berlin Fest, Soho Theatre, The Yard
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
‘Crushing sentimentality through a
meat-grinder and spewing it over crusty, vicious suburbia, I Heart Catherine Pistachio hits out of nowhere'
Exeunt Magazine
'A true theatrical unicorn: unimaginable until you've seen it, and unforgettable once you have'
Three Weeks​​​​​​​​
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Pilot Theatre / Northern Stage
Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Tulloch
Directed by Katie Posner
'This skilful adaptation is a Premier League effort'
The Independent
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True North / Super Slow Way
Directed by Louie Ingham
2015
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Sellotape Sisters
Signal Theatre
Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe
Directed by Robert Wolstenholme
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True North / Lakes Culture
Directed by Louie Ingham
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2014
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Royal Exchange Theatre
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
Winner: Hodgkiss Award 2013
Short-listed: Verity Bargate Award 2011
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‘A surrealist Royle Family set in a desperate North East seaside town’
Manchester Evening News
Published by Nick Hern Books
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​​The Streets in the Sky
Encounter / Halifax Arts Festival
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
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Encounter
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
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‘Poignant, eccentric and haunting'​
The Scotsman
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Queen’s Hall
Directed by Rosie Kellegher
‘Mattinson is an author with a fertile
and restless imagination, most at home with finding truth in the most mind-blowing or unlikely situations’
British Theatre Guide
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2013
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Brown Bird
Chicken Pox Fox / Bush Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
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Colour It In
Ugly Sister
Directed by Hamish MacDougall
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Dot to Dot Active Arts
Writer & Performer
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Lashes and Taches
Northern Stage
Writer & Director
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East 15 (Acting & Stage Combat)
Directed by Shane Dempsey
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Snap
Young Vic (5 x 5)
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
2012
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Paines Plough
Come to Where I’m From
Writer & Performer
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Bush Theatre
Directed by Madani Younis
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Nominated: Most Promising New Playwright at Off West End Awards
Finalist: Writer of the Year at Journal Culture Awards
‘Has some hilarious moments, and a couple of magical ones too...a solid tribute to strong northern womanhood’
Arts Desk
‘Mattinson's humour is brash yet sharp...
a rich and intriguing play'
Exeunt Magazine
Published by Nick Hern Books
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Rola Cola
Ugly Sister
Directed by Rachel Valentine-Smith
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Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
Northumberland Theatre Company
Directed by Gillian Hambleton
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Monster
Bold as Brass
Directed by Jackie Fielding
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2011
No Wire Hangers
Soho Theatre
Directed by Nina Steiger
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$h!t Disco
Royal Exchange Theatre
Longlisted: The Bruntwood Prize 2011
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Me, Fatty
Ugly Sister
Directed by Anthony Coleridge
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Chicken Pox Fox / Live Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
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‘Nails the breathless mood of being fourteen…like Carrie re-written by Morrissey’
Three Weeks
‘A Belle and Sebastian song made flesh’ Fest
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2010
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Live Theatre
Directed by Paul James
‘Captures the slang-laden, sometimes offhand and often acerbic dialect of
the 21st century teen, with frightening accuracy’
The Journal
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Julian Scary
Live Theatre
Directed by Amy Golding
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Freddy Hearts Freddie
Ugly Sister
Directed by Julia McShane
2009
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I Heart Morrissey
Live Theatre
Directed by Jackie Fielding
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The Tufty Club
Northumberland Theatre Company
Directed by Helen Ferguson
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2008
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The Bang Gang
Bad Fox Theatre
Directed by Katie Posner
‘Genuinely disturbing and brilliantly-written’
The Stage
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Live Theatre
Directed by Steve Gilroy
‘This play has a big heart and an
even bigger mouth’
Guardian
Swan Song
New Writing North
Directed by Max Roberts
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Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
Live Theatre
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
Radio >
2018
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BBC Radio 3 (I Told You I Was Ill)
Directed by Pauline Harris
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2017
BBC Radio 4 Online (Pod Plays)
Directed by Sharon Sephton
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2016
BBC Radio 3 (Sonnets in the City)
Directed by Nadia Molinari
2014
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BBC Radio 4 (Afternoon Drama,
Directed by Sharon Sephton
Shortlisted: Best Radio Drama, Writers' Guild Awards 2015
‘Mattinson creates a stunningly original aural landscape’
The Stage
2012
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Glow in the Dark
BBC Free Thinking Festival
Directed by Sharon Sephton
2009
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BBC Radio 3 (The Wire)
Adaptation from original stage play
Directed by Katherine Beacon
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2006
Snowglobe
BBC Radio Newcastle
Directed by Yve Ngoo
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Winner: BBC Sport Shorts Prize
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Prom
BBC Radio Newcastle
Directed by Yve Ngoo
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Screen >
2026
Dance! Dog! Dance!
Knock & Nash
Directed by Jordan Tweddle
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2024
Knock & Nash
Directed by Jordan Tweddle
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Winner: Best Short, Denver Film Awards​​​​​
2022​
Elevator Productions/BFI Network
Directed by Andy McVicar
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Winner: Best Dramatic Performance, Royal Television Society Awards 2023
2012
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ITV Studios
Story Associate
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2009
Scallywagga
BBC Three
Directed by David Sant
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in development
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The Seagull (& Other Poems)
Elevator Productions