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Suzanne Heathcote
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Playwright, screenwriter
Awards

Suzanne Heathcote is a British playwright and screenwriter based in the United States. She was the lead writer and an executive producer for the third series of Killing Eve (2020) for BBC America, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as an executive producer.[2][3] She later served as a writer and executive producer on the Apple TV+ miniseries The Crowded Room (2023), and co-wrote the screenplay for the Netflix feature The Thursday Murder Club (2025).[4][5][6] Her plays include I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile and a stage adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2024–25).[7][8][9] Heathcote is a recipient of the New York Stage and Film Founders’ Award and is an alumna of Ars Nova’s Play Group in New York City; she has also been a resident playwright with SPACE on Ryder Farm.[10][11][12]

Career

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Theatre

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Heathcote’s first play, Concrete Fairgrounds, was selected for the Royal Court Young Writers’ Festival.[13] Other plays include Plot 10 (Heat & Light, Hampstead Theatre), SO. (LabRats, New York), and I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile (New Neighborhood/Berkshire Theatre Group; later Redtwist Theatre, Chicago).[7][14]

Her stage adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go premiered at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, in 2024 before touring to co-producers including Royal & Derngate, Malvern Theatres, Bristol Old Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre.[8][9]

Radio

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For BBC Radio 4, Heathcote wrote the drama Taken.[15]

Television

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In April 2019, BBC America announced Heathcote as lead writer and executive producer for Killing Eve series 3, continuing the show’s tradition of rotating female head writers.[16][2]

Heathcote was a writer and executive producer on Apple TV+’s miniseries The Crowded Room (2023).[4] Additional credits include writing/producing roles on Fear the Walking Dead (AMC), See (Apple TV+), and Little Voice (Apple TV+).[17][18][19]

Heathcote has also been attached as writer and executive producer on Peacock’s The Miniature Wife, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen.[15][20]

Film

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Heathcote co-wrote (with Katy Brand) the screenplay for Netflix’s feature adaptation of Richard Osman’s novel The Thursday Murder Club (2025), directed by Chris Columbus and released by Netflix/Amblin.[5][6]

Awards and nominations

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  • 2020 – Primetime Emmy Award, Outstanding Drama Series – nominee (Killing Eve; executive producer).[3][1]

Selected works

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Plays

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  • Concrete Fairgrounds (Royal Court Young Writers’ Festival).[13]
  • Plot 10 (Heat & Light, Hampstead Theatre).
  • SO. (LabRats, New York).
  • I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile (New Neighborhood/Berkshire Theatre Group; Redtwist Theatre, Chicago).[7]
  • Never Let Me Go (adaptation from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro; Rose Theatre/co-producers tour, 2024–25).[8][9]

Television

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  • Killing Eve – lead writer and executive producer (series 3, 2020).[2]
  • The Crowded Room – writer and executive producer (2023).[4]
  • Fear the Walking Dead – writer/executive story editor.[21]
  • See – writer/producer.[22]
  • Little Voice – writer/supervising producer.[23]
  • The Miniature Wife – writer and executive producer (upcoming).[15]

Film

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  • The Thursday Murder Club — co-writer (2025).[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Suzanne Heathcote — Awards & Nominations". Television Academy. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "KILLING EVE RETURNS TO BBC AMERICA AND AMC ON SUNDAY, APRIL 26TH AT 10PM ET/PT" (Press release). AMC Networks. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Outstanding Drama Series – 2020 Nominees & Winners". Television Academy. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "The Crowded Room — Cast & crew". Apple TV+ Press. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  5. ^ a b c "The Thursday Murder Club — cast, release date & plot". Netflix Tudum. August 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  6. ^ a b Loughrey, Clarisse (28 August 2025). "The Thursday Murder Club review — Netflix's Richard Osman adaptation is so digestible, it barely exists". The Independent. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  7. ^ a b c "I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile — world-premiere announcement" (PDF). Berkshire Theatre Group. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  8. ^ a b c "Never Let Me Go". Royal & Derngate. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  9. ^ a b c "Full creative team announced for world premiere of Never Let Me Go". Bristol Old Vic. 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Awards, Fellowships & Residencies — Founders' Award recipients". New York Stage and Film. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  11. ^ "Play Group (2014–2015)". Ars Nova. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  12. ^ "Alumni Archive — The Working Farm". SPACE on Ryder Farm. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  13. ^ a b "Young Writers' Festival Readings — Concrete Fairgrounds". Royal Court Theatre. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  14. ^ "I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile at Redtwist Theatre". Theatre In Chicago. 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  15. ^ a b c "Suzanne Heathcote — profile". Rose Theatre. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  16. ^ "BBC AMERICA RENEWS Killing Eve FOR THIRD SEASON" (Press release). AMC Networks. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  17. ^ "'Killing Eve' Season 3 showrunner Suzanne Heathcote on stepping in". Salon. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  18. ^ "Little Voice — Cast & crew". Apple TV+ Press. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  19. ^ "See — Cast & crew". Apple TV+ Press. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  20. ^ "Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen Lead Peacock Dramedy The Miniature Wife". The Wrap. 25 March 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  21. ^ Salon, op. cit.
  22. ^ Apple TV+ Press, op. cit.
  23. ^ Apple TV+ Press, op. cit.
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