Polly Creed

Development Editor

Before joining the development team at the Lighthouse, Polly’s background was in theatre and documentary film. She is co-founder of Power Play Productions, a theatre and film company that specialises in telling women’s stories of injustice. Through Power Play, Polly has produced a number of shows including Funeral Flowers by Emma Dennis-Edwards (Scotsman Fringe First Award, Filipa Braganca Award), Somebody by Matilda Curtis, and Next Time by Jess Moore. Power Play has also run several impact campaigns and produced installations at the Tate Modern, V&A and Copeland Gallery. In 2021, the company was shortlisted for the Deutsche Bank award for creative entrepreneurship. More recently, Polly has developed and produced a feature length documentary and multimedia exhibition, exploring the legacy of Holloway Prison after its closure in 2016, centering the voices of former prisoners.

Alongside her producing work, Polly has worked as a writer and theatre director. Her play Humane was performed at the Pleasance Theatre in 2021 and published by Aurora Metro. She directed The Straw Chair by Sue Glover at the Finborough Theatre in 2022 and Pussycat in Memory of Darkness by Ukrainian writer Neda Nezhdana, translated by John Farndon. In 2022-2023, the play toured to Kyiv, USA, and Germany.

Polly was a shadow script editor and reader on 4Screenwriting 2023 and has worked as a freelance reader for a number of production companies. She is passionate about platforming lived-experienced and marginalised voices, and is specifically committed to changing narratives around the care and criminal justice systems.