Auteur: Naomi Westerman

Naomi Westerman is a playwright and former anthropologist. As an anthropologist, Naomi studied death rituals around the world, also working on mental health and gender. She changed careers and became a professional writer in 2015, and since then her work has been widely performed at theatres in London and across the UK and internationally, including in the West End and off-Broadway. Her first TV series « The Faulty Elephants », a comedy-drama about the world »s first all-disabled criminal heist gang, is currently in development. She is a recipient of the Royal Society of Literature Award, the Michael Grandage Futures Bursary, the Derby Theatre / In Good Co Mid-Career Commission Award, and was a finalist for the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award at the Young Vic. Her play « Batman » is currently running in London, community project « Mudlarking » opens at the Bush Theatre in March 2023, and her play « Puppy » runs Oct-Nov 2023 in London. Happy Death Club is her first non-fiction book.