Patricia Cumper has been writing for the theatre in the Caribbean and the UK for nearly thirty years. Her work has been produced throughout the Caribbean, in Canada and the US, and her first work to appear in the UK 'The Fallen Angel and the Devil's Concubine' was at the Almeida in the late 1980s. Her 2002 play, 'The Key Game', commissioned by Talawa and produced at the Riverside, was included in Time Out's Critics Choice and won four star reviews. Her work for radio includes a RIMA winning drama series, adapting Rita Dove's Darker Face of the Earth for the World Service and most recently a fifteen part serialization of Small Island for Woman's Hour. She has also worked as a critic and commentator on Radio 4 and the World Service, as script reader and dramaturg, and has had a novel and several short stories published.