An evening with the Oscar-winning writer, director and actor as she discusses the complementary crafts of writing and performing. In April 2021, she won the Academy Award for best original screenplay, the first British woman to win (since it was established in its current form in 1958) with her film, Promising Young Woman. She earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations as a writer on the BBC thriller series Killing Eve. She is known, too, for playing Patsy in BBC’s Call the Midwife and Camilla Parker-Bowles in Netflix's The Crown. In May, Fennell received the 2021 Hay Festival Medal for Drama. She talks to the radio and TV presenter Gemma Cairney.
