Serena Coady is an award-nominated playwright and journalist with roots in Malaysia and Australia.
In 2025, she was a top 10 finalist for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize, one of Australian theatre's most prestigious prizes. That same year, her play The Last Woman of Sailean was longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, the Woven Voices Prize, and the Ilfeld Prize. In 2024, her play Bin Room was shortlisted for The Cooper Prize.
Serena graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London, with an MA Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance, and is an alum of New Earth Theatre’s Writing Academy.
As a journalist, she has written feature stories for The Independent, CNN, Vox, Dazed, i-D, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Refinery29, Insider, Australian Geographic, and more. She's a long-time contributing writer for frankie magazine and has worked as a news editor across several Condé Nast titles. Her reporting explores culture, nostalgia, food, and people living in remote places. 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. Her second piece is forthcoming in Boulevard. In 2024, her audio drama The Beanie Baby Heist of ’97 was produced by Vespucci.
Libido Sewer is her newsletter.
Contact: serenacoady@gmail.com
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