Sarah Rutherford is a Scottish-born, London-based playwright and screenwriter. She was Writer in Residence at Park Theatre, London. Plays include: The Girl Who Fell (Trafalgar Studios); Adult Supervision (Park Theatre; nominated Best Off-West End Production - WhatsOnStage Awards).

Sarah has a first-class degree in English from Oxford University and completed a PhD at Edinburgh University on Black Farce in Jacobean and 1960s Theatre while working as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. She then trained at Guildford School of Acting and worked as an actor for several years before becoming a playwright and screenwriter. She is currently working on a new musical, as well as several TV projects.

'I keep trying to find something a bit exotic in my family tree. Best I could do was a great-grandma who looks a bit tanned in the old photos.'
US election night 2008. A smart inner-London 'village'. For white ex-lawyer Natasha, adoptive mother to two Ethiopian children, tonight is the ideal opportunity to get to know the small handful of other 'mothers of children of colour' at their smart private school. But as the Obamatinis start to flow, the middle-class veneer begins to crack and Natasha's carefully planned social occasion quickly unravels. Lifting the lid on a stew of racial tensions and social embarrassments, this is a hilarious, provocative and brilliantly insightful look at the new 'Beige Britain'.