Award winning playwright Janice Okoh, graduated from the Scriptwriting strand of UEA's M.A. in Creative Writing in 2008. Okoh worked as a legal assistant for seven years before turning her hand to writing. In 2011 she won the Bruntwood Playwrighting Competition and was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and the Alfred Fagon Award for her play The Real House (Three Birds).