HOLY FOOL
​Co-written with Rosalind Adler
Stage play
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Holy Fool is the story of the raging inner conflict which tormented the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich amid the terror of Stalin's Russia. He battles to keep his humour and his humanity afloat - and his family alive - while treading a knife-edge between deference and irony. (To be staged at Park Theatre, London in September 2026)
THE FIRST CASUALTY
​Stage play
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This play is about the nature of truth in times of crisis. A fearless, female news correspondent finds her professional and personal lives clash while under siege in a war zone. As she shares the grief of her cameraman’s death on assignment, Jo is forced to face up to what really happened under siege in Iraq. Will her obsession with telling the truth lead her to confess that her emotional side has finally been awoken?
A PASSAGE FROM INDIA
​Stage Play
​Set in present-day Britain and India just after Independence, we see Stella, now a woman in her eighties, recounting her past secret life to her granddaughter. It’s a story she is compelled to tell as she nears the end of her life. We go back to 1948 when young Stella, pregnant, happy and living in an ashram, finds herself expelled by the Guru along with her lover Raj. They are ‘rescued’ by Raj’s aunt but Stella discovers that they are both plotting behind her back – not to facilitate a marriage with Raj but rather the removal of Stella to Calcutta where Nalini will see her through the birth of her baby. What happens to that baby? It’s a story about fate and choices, the desire for adventure and a woman’s lot.
D MINOR
​Stage Play
​​Elly’s grip on the real world slips as A-Levels and big decisions loom. She battles anxiety and depression as she re-thinks her relationships with her father, boyfriend and her friends on social media. Seen through physical theatre, soundscape and words, D Minor charts a young girl’s troubled mental health journey.
BABY COME BACK
Stage play
A contemporary play about a woman who gave up her baby for adoption and how it comes back to haunt her. The story explores a mother’s guilt, family tensions, feelings of abandonment and mixed race angst. It’s a story about loss and identity. Baby Come Back was showcased in sell-out performances at the Leicester Square Theatre with very positive audience feedback.
'This a unique play by Lea Sellers about a very moving subject which is usually kept hidden ... It is very touching, definitely worthy of a further life.' Anna Carteret, Actress
FLAMES (OR BRIEF ENCOUNTER REVISITED)
​Short play
Trevor has found a way of contacting the love of his life Celia - 50 years after their affair ended. When they meet again, in the company of his granddaughter and her carer, Trevor is as much in love as ever but Celia is bitter and resentful. Will the attraction the two young people feel for each other - along with Trevor’s deafness – keep the flame alive?
(Winner of Actors & Writers London Competition)
THE BURDEN
​Interior monologue adaptable for radio, stage or screen
Set in 1960s London, Zofia, a Polish Jewish refugee, tells her story to her future daughter-in-law as they prepare for the wedding. Set against the evocative background of Covent Garden, Billingsgate and Carnaby Street, she reveals how she survived the Warsaw ghetto and the terrible secret of her son's real father. (Winner of Actors & Writers London Competition)
THE MERSEY PRINCESS
45 minute radio play
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Seen through the eyes of a fifteen year-old girl facing the challenges of adolescence and parental expectations, this is a rite-of-passage story of love, loyalty and class reflecting the social and moral shifts of the turbulent 1960s on Merseyside.