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Serena Coady is an award-nominated playwright and journalist with roots in Malaysia and Australia. Driven by curiosity and humour, she creates work about the peculiar corners of life. In 2025, she was a top 10 finalist for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize, one of Australian theatre's most prestigious prizes. Her plays have been shortlisted for The Cooper Prize and longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award and the Ilfield Prize.

 

She graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London, with an MA in Writing for Performance & Dramaturgy, and is also an alum of New Earth Theatre’s Writing Academy.

 

As a journalist, Serena has written feature stories for The Independent, CNN, Vox, Dazed, i-D, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Refinery29, Insider, Australian Geographic, and more. She is a long-time contributing writer for Frankie magazine and has also freelanced as a news editor at Condé Nast.

 

Her reporting explores internet culture, nostalgia, and people living in remote places—from lighthouse keepers in the UK, to chefs in Antarctica, to women in the High Arctic. For her journalism, she was nominated by IPSE for UK Freelancer of the year.

 

Her first piece of short fiction, Hardened Skin, was published in The London Magazine, and her audio narrative The Beanie Baby Heist of ’97 was produced by Vespucci/Paperless.