Marcia Layne is an award winning playwright. Her play Off Camera which won the Alfred Fagon Award was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2003. In 2010 Layne was commissioned by the BBC to write an afternoon play 'The Barber and the Ark' which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The play was subsequently shortlisted for the Sanford St Martin and Imison award. Layne has also worked as a local government Arts Officer and prior to that a Multicultural Officer at Sheffield Hallam University Union of Students.