Laura Horton, Lynn Faces and the career change from PR to playwright: 'A lot of money is made from the brains of writers'

Playwright Laura Horton's new show Lynn Faces is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, she talks to Working Differently about leaving a PR career in her late-thirties

Hello, hello friends!

Delighted to say Wormholes opens next week at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham! Previews £10, all other nights £18 - get your tickets here.

Also - here’s Victoria in the magnificent trailer. Aaaand we went on Loose Women this week! Watch on catch-up - about 2 mins in here.

Proud to be loose: The Loose ladies were so lovely.

This week I’m speaking to Laura Horton, whose play, like mine, has a theme of coercive controlling relationships. Her’s is a comedy about Lynn, from Alan Partridge and I can’t wait to see it.

Laura used to work in PR - which is how I knew her and I’ve watched in awe as Laura has doggedly worked away at her craft to become the brilliant playwright she is today. Laura has also been interviewed about Lynn Faces in the Guardian today, but obviously you’d rather read my Q&A. Yes? Excellent. Here goes:

EJ: So you used to be in PR and you're now a playwright. What prompted that transition, and how is it going?

LH: I always wanted to be a writer, and that w…