Tamsin is currently under commission to the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare company and Hampstead Theatre.

Her latest play REALLY OLD LIKE 45 premiered at The National Theatre in January 2010 and was a sell-out success.

**** “Oglesby’s play burns with rage, and cackles with back humour, and Anna Mackmin’s quicksilver production is vibrantly alive to both.” Time Out

**** “warmly recommend Oglesby's play” Guardian

**** “a moving and upsetting confrontation of the realities of old age” Daily Telegraph

 THE WAR NEXT DOOR completed a successful run at the Tricycle in 2007

“this magical-satirical portrait of liberal middle-class England delivers an unexpected explosion, like a bomb in a designer bag” Sunday Times.

ONLY THE LONELY opened in Birmingham in November 2005, directed by Lynne Parker and featuring Benjamin Whitrow and Anne Firbank

“startlingly droll dialogue and an extraordinary capacity to clamber inside other people’s heads.” Daily Telegraph

Her play US and Them  (which starred Hugh Bonneville, Siobhan Redmond, Harriet Walter and Matthew Marsh) sold out at The Hampstead Theatre in May 2003:- "It’s a thrillingly successful evening" – Jeremy Kingston - Times

"a shining example of what a good contemporary comedy should be: it's funny, it’s well constructed and it has something new to say about an important subject" – The Spectator

Her play for children, OLIVE, was commissioned and presented under the National Theatre's Shell Connections initiative to great acclaim.

MY BEST FRIEND was commissioned by Birmingham Rep and opened at Hampstead Theatre in January 2000 before opening at Birmingham Rep in February:

"Tamsin Oglesby's talented new play ... the human observation is sharp, the writing deft"
- Benedict Nightingale, The Times



 "sparky new writing ... confirms that [Oglesby] is a writer capable of combining sharp wit with deep feeling ... Oglesby has you laughing at one moment and wincing with rueful recognition the next ... compelling"
- Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph



"a witty three-hander ... painfully accurate and perceptive"
- Paul Taylor, The Independent 



Her savage and funny first play TWO LIPS INDIFFERENT RED was produced at the Bush Theatre in 1995 and subsequently optioned by Miramax.

"Oglesby writes with buoyant wit about the world of the salon, the catwalk and plastic surgery, offering a sharply observed social satire which funds the play's chief delight" - Kate Stratton, Time Out
 

REALLY OLD, LIKE FORTY FIVE, THE WAR NEXT DOOR and MY BEST FRIEND are published by Oberon.  US and Them is published by Faber in individual volumes. TWO LIPS INDIFFERENT RED is published by Faber in their Bush Theatre anthology LAKE OF RUBIES.

Previously Tamsin has worked as a director at the Royal Court, National Theatre Studio and extensively on the London Fringe. 

She has written a number of radio plays and is currently developing one-off and series ideas for Film and Television.

Tamsin is represented by Charlotte Knight.