Paula Glenister

Paula has an eclectic background including working as a lawyer, teaching English and Law, training as a holistic therapist and a postnatal facilitator. She also ran her own business making natural skincare products and running wellbeing courses.

Paula wrote her first chapter story at the age of eight but it wasn’t until many, many (many) years later that she had the courage to take an MA in Creative Writing which she graduated from in 2020. Since then she’s studied character, structure and comedy until she finally felt ready for people to see her writing. She had the good fortune the sign up to a CFT playwriting course and meet her fellow Playweavers.

Paula’s influences are as eclectic as her background ranging from Jane Austen to Terry Pratchett, Tom Stoppard to Caryl Churchill and from Manic Street Preachers to Corrine Bailey Rae. Her favourite genres include murder/mystery and procedural crime dramas, she also loves reading children’s novels, particularly fantasy.

Paula is looking forward to a time when there are as many successful female playwrights as there are male, as many parts for female actors as there are for male actors and when anyone and everyone who has a story, can be heard.