Yasmin Joseph

Yasmin Joseph is a British-Caribbean playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her debut play J'Ouvert, which premiered at the fringe venue Theatre503 in 2019, before moving to the West End.

Early life and education

Yasmin Joseph was born in London, grew up in the north London borough of Camden. She is of Caribbean descent;[1] her grandparents had come to the UK from the Caribbean islands as part of the Windrush Generation. One grandmother worked as a nurse.

She studied English and drama at university.

Career

Joseph's debut play J'Ouvert premiered at Theatre503 in Battersea in 2019,[2] before moving to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End in 2021. The play was inspired by her childhood experiences, when her family was actively involved in creating carnival floats and taking part in the costume parade every summer.[3][1]

She has written for the Royal Court Theatre (as a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights scheme),[2] Soho Theatre, and the Actors Touring Company, and Clean Break.[2] She used her grandmother's experience as a nurse when she was hired by The Place Theatre in Bedford to write a drama based on memoirs compiled by the Retired Caribbean Nurses Association.

Joseph is an alumnus of Sister Pictures' writer-in-residence scheme.[4] She has worked on writing screenplays, developing projects for Sister Pictures, and was a co-writer on the period drama series A Thousand Blows (released 2025 on Hulu and Disney +).

She is based in London.[1]

Recognition and awards

References

  1. ^ a b c Thompson, Jessie (16 July 2021). "Meet the young playwrights shaking up London's reopened stages". standard.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Yasmin Joseph". Royal Court. 11 December 2020. Archived from the original on 18 June 2025. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  3. ^ "'I wanted to capture the joy': J'Ouvert writer Yasmin Joseph on bringing Europe's biggest carnival to the stage". TheGuardian.com. 27 April 2021.
  4. ^ "About Us". SISTER. 31 July 2025. Archived from the original on 18 September 2025. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Vibrant carnival production wins drama prize".


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