Corey Weekes

Corey Weekes is a writer, actor, director and musician and has appeared in multiple theatre and TV productions, including Birmingham Rep’s GRIMEBOY, Doncaster CAST’s MISS JULIE and Netflix/BBC musical drama, CHAMPION, which also featured his original music. After being selected to participate in Soho Theatre’s Writers Lab, Corey’s debut show, RAPSODY, co-written with Oli Dunbar, was the recipient of the Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Theatre Reserve and had a month’s run at The Pleasance (Edinburgh). He then went on to win Off West End’s Adopt A Playwright Award 23/24. That’s A Rap, a rap theatre company Corey co-founded are mid national tour with their debut production, a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet at the Belgrade Coventry, Bristol Old Vic and Hackney Empire. Corey is passionate about the main-staging of underrepresented voices and ensuring these stories are told by people with lived experience of their content.

Corey is the recipient of Paines Plough’s 2025 Playwright Fellowship.