Eve Leigh is an award-winning, internationally recognised writer for performance. 

Plays include Salty Irina (Paines Plough); Wildfire Road (Sheffield Theatres); Pinocchio (Unicorn Theatre); Flächenbrand (Theater Bonn, Theaterhaus G7 Mannheim, Theater Lüneburg); Midnight Movie (Royal Court UK, Theater Dessau, Theater Giessen, Honos Theater Athens); While You Are Here (The Place/Dance East); The Trick (Bush Theatre, national tour); Spooky Action at a Distance (Royal Court/RWCMD); The Curtain (Young Vic Taking Part); Stone Face, and Silent Planet (both Finborough Theatre). 

Games, installations, and digital works include words fail: a fortune-telling game (Coney); Ghost Pine (Audible); The Delegation (Coney/Точка доступа); Invisible Summer (Royal Court); Movimento/Variations (36 маймуни/Bulgarian National Theatre Festival); Your Future (HAU/Sophiensaele/Ballhaus Ost/Camden People’s Theatre); A Short and Boring Story (Camden People’s Theatre). 

Residencies include Royal Court 2019 and 2017, Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece 2017, AIDF Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz 2016.

Awards include Berlin Theatertreffen Stueckemarkt selection 2021, Sarah Award for Audio Fiction 2020, Jerwood/Royal Court New Playwright Award 2019 (with Jasmine Lee-Jones), Women’s Prize for Playwriting Finalist 2020, Bruntwood Prize shortlist 2019.

Upcoming work includes commissions from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Headlong, Unicorn Theatre, and the Javaad Alipoor Company, and an attachment at the National Theatre Studio.