Frances Poet

2026 Finalist

Small Acts of Love

Synopsis: Small Acts of Love is a compelling, true story, based on meticulous research, about the acts of kindness carried out by the people of Lockerbie in the wake of the Pan Am 103 atrocity in December 1988. Brought together in extreme adversity, two distant communities from Scotland and America forged bonds of friendship that endure thirty years on. The play, with original songs written by Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue, memorialises those who were lost and celebrates the friendship, compassion and humanity that rose from the ashes.

Small Acts of Love premiered at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in September 2025 in a Citizens Theatre Production in association with National Theatre of Scotland.

Cast Breakdown: 7M/7F

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Agent: Nick Barron at United Agents

Bio: Frances Poet is a Glasgow based writer of stage, screen and radio. Stage plays include: Small Acts of Love which reopened the newly renovated Citizens Theatre (2025), Fruitcake (Tron Theatre 2025), There Is No Room In Our Bathroom For Lewis Capaldi (PACE at Paisley Arts Centre 2024), Sense and Sensibility (Pitlochry Festival Theatre and OVO, St Albans 2024), Still (Traverse Theatre 2021), Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse/Queens Theatre Hornchurch/Leicester Curve 2020 and 2022, Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist 2021), Fibres (Citizens Theatre/Stella Quines tour 2019), Gut (Traverse Theatre/Tron Theatre 2018, Writers’ Guild Best Play Award 2019) and the multi-award winning Adam (National Theatre of Scotland tour 2017-19, Fringe First, The Flying Artichoke Award and, on screen, winner of BAFTA Scotland Best Television Scripted 2020 and Audience Award for Best Film at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival). Frances’s new play, Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In will tour Scotland in Spring 2026 in a National Theatre of Scotland/Tron Theatre co-production.   

Frances’s work is often produced internationally with recent productions including a French translation of Fruitcake (Les Prémonitions De Mikaël Morneau, translated by Marc-André Thibault) produced in Montreal, two Turkish-language productions of Gut (His, translated by Servat Aybar) premiered in Istanbul and Cyrpus, a Portuguese translation of Adam produced in Lisbon (translated by Nuno Gonçalo Rodrigues) and Crusaders (NT Connections) produced at India’s National Centre for Performing Arts.

Screen work includes a number of short films produced at national and international film festivals, two episodes of Black Camel’s hit crime drama, Annika and several episodes of River City.
The radio drama This Thing of Darkness Series 3, written by Frances with monologues by Eileen Horne was Finalist of the New York Festivals Best Drama Podcast and is currently available to listen to on BBC Sounds.