Jackie Carreira

Jackie Carreira is an author, playwright, feature writer, musician and co-founder of QuirkHouse Theatre Company and the Foreword Festival of Fringe Literature.

British-born of Portuguese parents, she grew up in Hackney, East London and also lived in Lisbon for a few years as a child. This diverse and colourful background has flavourred much of her work.

After travelling the world playing music throughout her twenties with a variety of rock and indie bands, she hung up her bass guitar and picked up a pen. She's been writing ever since and twice been a winner of the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Some of her plays are available online via lazybeescripts.co.uk. She has published three novels with Troubador - SLEEPING THROUGH WAR in 2018, THE SEVENTH TRAIN (based on one of her award-winning plays) in 2019, and NOTEBOOK NUMBER NINE in 2024. She has also published two collections of short stories and poetry, the most recent in collaboration with her husband, actor Andy Deane.

Jackie's favourite places to write are coffee shops, especially in railway stations, but If she could have another life, she would be a full-time philosopher and get paid to ask questions all day!