We are thrilled to announce the appointment of our new President, April de Angelis!

April de Angelis is an acclaimed playwright who has worked in stage, radio, and television. Her work ranges from the domestic to the epic and is both brilliantly funny, dark, and incisive. April’s plays are distinguished by their robust vivacity.

Theatre includes: UPRISING (Glyndebourne 2025, Ivor Novello nominated), THE DIVINE MRS S (Hampstead Theatre 2024, finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), INFAMOUS (Jermyn Street Theatre 2023), KERRY JACKSON (National Theatre 2022), GIN CRAZE (Theatre Royal Northampton 2021), WHOSE PLANET ARE YOU ON? (Old Vic Theatre 2022), MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, a two part dramatization of Elena Ferrantes’ epic family saga (Rose Theatre Kingston 2017 and National Theatre, London 2019/20), THE VILLAGE (Theatre Royal Stratford East 2018), FRANKENSTEIN (Royal Exchange Manchester 2018), JUMPY (starring Tamsin Greig – Royal Court 2011, Duke of York’s Theatre 2012, Melbourne and Sydney 2015), an adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Birmingham Rep 2008), WILD EAST (Royal Court 2006), A LAUGHING MATTER (Out of Joint at National Theatre 2001), A WARWICKSHIRE TESTIMONY (RSC, 1999), THE POSITIVE HOUR (Out of Joint at Hampstead Theatre 1997), PLAYHOUSE CREATURES (Sphinx Theatre Company at the Haymarket Theatre 1993, revived at the Old Vic Theatre 1997, Chichester Festival Theatre 2013, Orange Tree Theatre 2025), THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FANNY HILL (The Old Fire Station Oxford 1991, revived at the Bristol Old Vic 2015).

Other work includes the opera libretti FLIGHT (Glyndebourne Opera 1997) and the SILENT TWINS (Almeida 2007).

Television includes Aristophanes (Channel 4, 1995), and she has written extensively for radio including an acclaimed adaptation of Peyton Place (BBC Radio 2002).

We hope all members join the committee in warmly welcoming April to the Society for Theatre Research.