Variety’s 10 Brits to Watch for 2025: Mia Tharia, Erin Kellyman, Nabhaan Rizwan Among Honorees

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Variety has announced its 2025 list of 10 Brits to Watch. This year’s honorees will be celebrated at the Newport Beach Film Festival U.K.

Honours on Feb. 12 at the Raffles London at the OWO. Davies was “quite reluctant” to write for television when the opportunity first arose. “I really love theater with all my heart, and I didn’t really get TV,” says Davies, who had been earning acclaim in London for her plays such as “scum” and “Graceland,” which premiered at the Royal Court in 2023.

Davies says her plays explore “the power we wield over each other and how it manifests, particularly in romantic relationships and in friendships.

The ways we can hurt each other or help each other.” Theater offered two distinct advantages to her: The “immediacy” of live performances that differ each night and the fact that “as a playwright you can go on for pages and pages of dialogue.