About — Christopher Adams

Christopher Adams is a British-American playwright and screenwriter based in London. His plays include the award-winning Tumulus (VAULT Festival, 2018; Soho Theatre, 2019), Antigone (Actors of Dionysus, 2017) and Cooked (Bread & Roses Theatre, 2015). Progression was shortlisted for the George Devine Award (2024), received an Honourable Mention from the Relentless Award, and was a finalist for the Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting; Venison won the International Playwriting Prize Carlo Annoni 2025. Earlier plays Lynchburg and Haunts were longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize.

For screen, his projects have been developed by FilmNation and Hirsch-Giovanni, and his short film Dads' Day Out was a semi-finalist for the Final Draft Big Break 2024 competition. He is a member of the 2025 Channel 4 Screenwriting cohort and is currently on attachment at the National Theatre.

He has developed work with the Royal Court (Young Writers Programme; Studio Writers Group), the Arcola, the Orange Tree Collective and Criterion New Writing. His short plays include the commissioned A Stronger Arm for Theatre503 and Workers for the Royal Court. He has taught scriptwriting at Royal Holloway, the University of Reading, the University of Southampton and Theatre Academy London.

"The piece should be taught on creative writing courses as an example of how to explore with integrity views with which the writer disagrees." Mark Lawson, The Guardian — on A Stronger Arm

Christopher also holds a PhD in mid-twentieth-century queer publishing history from the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and is a co-editor of The Collected Works of John Ford (Oxford University Press). A U.S. Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at Rare Book School (University of Virginia) and written on John Ford for the Globe.

He is represented by Alex Rusher at Independent Talent.