Alison Adams | Playwright | Hooks

For Driftwood: Debut.

Other Credits (selected): Previous writing credits by Alison Adams include: Nightwood Theatre’s Write From the Hip Program with her play Hooks (2026); The Vault Creation Lab’s Seed Development Program with her play One Million Love Songs (2025-2026); Half Blind Owl’s Featured Artist with her play Perfect, Perfect Girls at The Slate Festival (2025); and Tarragon Theatre’s Young Playwright’s Unit Extended Cohort with her play sweet teeth (2021).  

About: At the Gillespie House Playwrights retreat, Alison is looking to develop her newest work, Hooks. This show follows a young man, Tony, as he chases glory in the Mixed Martial Art world while dealing with predation, violence, and an aggressive weight cut. Alison will be working on mixing various forms of performance art (particularly ballet and opera), and how these different methods of storytelling can shape, warp, and sharpen the physical research of the world of animalistic violence.

Upcoming: You can catch Alison’s work, Hooks, at Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Festival from November 9-13th, 2026. She is also acting as Ophelia this autumn with Unchained Theatre’s production of Hamlet, directed by Jack Burrill. 

About the Play: Hooks

Hooks follows a young man, Tony, as he chases glory in the Mixed Martial Art world while dealing with predation, violence, and an aggressive weight cut.