Finley-Rose Townsend

writer and theatre maker

Finley-Rose Townsend is a Leicester playwright and theatre practitioner creating intimate, collaborative work rooted in lived experience. She is currently under seed commission from Fifth Word Theatre, Leicester Curve, and Derby Theatre, developing a new pop-up play, and was selected for Fifth Word’s 2024/2025 Playwriting cohort, where her play Good Boy was showcased at Nottingham Playhouse.

In 2025, she produced and directed Ty’rone Haughton’s five-star debut show Made You Look, and her short story was published in Motherhood Uncensored’s anthology.

Fin trained as a director on Birmingham REP’s Foundry programme and has worked across the Midlands directing and producing theatre productions and festivals. She is a past recipient of the JMK Regional Assistant Director award (2017) and has directed work for VAULT Festival (2018).

She now co-runs Literati Arts, a Leicester-based poetry organisation, producing creative projects and curating live performance and literary events. When the children are finally asleep, she writes plays long into the night.