AMY POWELL YEATES
'Made me laugh and cry. I loved it.’
Deborah Frances-White (The Guilty Feminist) on LITTLE DEATHS
Amy is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter with a background in devising and collaborative approaches.
Her debut full length play LITTLE DEATHS played at Summerhall for the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, receiving a variety of four and five star reviews followed by a sell out London transfer to Theatre503 in Spring 2025.
She is writing her next play on attachment to the Hampstead Theatre, originally as part of the 2024/25 Inspire Programme, mentored by Roy Williams. In 2025, she was awarded a grant to support her playwriting by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. She has been selected for talent schemes including the 2021 London Library Emerging Writers programme.
Previously, Amy worked in creative development and theatre producing for over ten years, with organisations including Playful Productions, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court Theatre and Barbican. In 2023 she produced the first ever staged reading of Sylvia Pankhurst’s ‘lost play’ BETWEEN TWO FIRES, written during her time in Holloway prison.
She grew up in Wales and trained at the University of Leeds Workshop Theatre.
Amy is represented by Allie Highmore at LARK Management.
LITTLE DEATHS
'This is just the start. Of Everything. Of Us.'
If a lifelong friendship dies many deaths, how many can Charlie and Debs survive?
It’s the late 90s and Charlie and Debs are sure of at least three things: you can never wear too much Impulse Blue, their Say You’ll Be There dance routine is different from everyone else’s, and most importantly – they will be friends forever. Obviously. No question. Right?
With high hopes, dodgy fringes and banging tunes binding them together, two women dance their way through the years as they shift, change and push at the boundaries of what their friendship is, and test what it can withstand.
The debut play by Amy Powell Yeates captures the weirdness and wonder of platonic love, and spotlights the power of friendship to hurt and heal. (Basically it’s about the Spice Girls and death.)
Summerhall - Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Theatre503 - sell out London transfer 2025
Directed by Claire O'Reilly
Starring Olivia Forrest and Rosa Robson
Photography by Johan Persson