Corene’s playwriting credits include 'Admission' for Ten, an evening of new writing at the Traverse Theatre, and four short pieces for their Words Words Words series. Her play Savages was performed at the Forest Studio in Edinburgh.
Her audio drama, Significant Deal, a horror-comedy about a fame-seeking actress who fabricates a tell-all memoir of her relationship with a deceased Hollywood star, was directed by Daniel Azarian and produced by VO Rep.
She was a winner of the London Playwrights Play Club 2020 Playwriting Challenge for her monologue, Bulbs, written in response to Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey.
She was a semi-finalist in the Warner Bros Comedy Writing Competition, and was awarded first prize in the World Wide Writers international short fiction competition for her story ‘Behold the Man’.
Her novel April Rising (HarperCollins UK) received praise from The New York Times Book Review, The Observer, Scotland on Sunday and other periodicals. It was highlighted as a ‘Hot Book for Spring’ by Barnes & Noble and was a main selection of the British book club Mango.
Other credits include ‘The Business of Writing’ for Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury) and various articles.
Corene has a BFA in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she held University and Paulette Goddard scholarships and studied acting with Stella Adler. She studied playwriting with Zinnie Harris and audio drama writing with producer David Ian Neville as part of his BBC Radio Drama Lab.
She is an adult literacies tutor and received an achievement award from Edinburgh Council for ‘outstanding contribution as a volunteer.’
Her audio drama, Significant Deal, a horror-comedy about a fame-seeking actress who fabricates a tell-all memoir of her relationship with a deceased Hollywood star, was directed by Daniel Azarian and produced by VO Rep.
She was a winner of the London Playwrights Play Club 2020 Playwriting Challenge for her monologue, Bulbs, written in response to Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey.
She was a semi-finalist in the Warner Bros Comedy Writing Competition, and was awarded first prize in the World Wide Writers international short fiction competition for her story ‘Behold the Man’.
Her novel April Rising (HarperCollins UK) received praise from The New York Times Book Review, The Observer, Scotland on Sunday and other periodicals. It was highlighted as a ‘Hot Book for Spring’ by Barnes & Noble and was a main selection of the British book club Mango.
Other credits include ‘The Business of Writing’ for Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury) and various articles.
Corene has a BFA in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she held University and Paulette Goddard scholarships and studied acting with Stella Adler. She studied playwriting with Zinnie Harris and audio drama writing with producer David Ian Neville as part of his BBC Radio Drama Lab.
She is an adult literacies tutor and received an achievement award from Edinburgh Council for ‘outstanding contribution as a volunteer.’