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Lydia Marchant is a writer for stage, screen and audio. She was one of eight writers selected for the BBC’s Writers Academy 19/20 led by John Yorke and since has written for Holby City and multiple episodes of Casualty and EastEnders. She is currently writing for Waterloo Road and co-wrote Simon Warne’s Never Too Late for Channel 5, starring Anita Dobson and Nigel Havers. 

Her debut full-length play MUMSY, about parenthood on a 0 hour contract, premiered in at Hull Truck Theatre, where she is an Affiliate Artist, and is published by Nick Hern Books. (‘Brilliant bittersweet comedy about the family way’ – The Guardian ****). Her second, STUCK about Britain’s teaching crisis, was developed with 50 education professionals and Live Theatre as part of their Bursary Scheme. It was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. She is also under commission with Hull Truck Theatre, developing a new play about women’s Sunday League football and endometriosis. Her previous credits include: Paines Plough, Hull Truck Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Derby Theatre, Pilot Theatre, Separate Doors, Middle Child Theatre, Silent Uproar and The Roaring Girls. 

She is currently writing for Wondery’s Spotlight Award-winning British Scandal podcast, presented by Alice Levine and Matt Ford. She also worked on showbiz series Terribly Famous and an original 8- part podcast, Last Soviet, presented by NSYNC’s Lance Bass (‘impressive and interesting’ – The Guardian). 

She has a Distinction in MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is a graduate of the Writing Squad. She has previously taken part in writers programmes at Leeds Playhouse, Soho Theatre, National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Royal Court and BFI. 

Lydia is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow 2025-2027 at the University of Hull. She runs Hull Truck Theatre’s Introduction to Screenwriting and Playwriting courses and Middle Child Theatre’s No Dress Code Young Writers Group. She has previously taught Theatre students at the University of York and Wimbledon College of Art.