Winsome Pinnock’s stage plays include: One Under (Tricycle Theatre, and Graeae UK tour, 2019), Leave Taking  (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre, National Theatre, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Lyric theatre, Hammersmith and The Bush), Glutathione (Young Vic Theatre), The Principles of Cartography (The Bush Theatre), Tituba (Hampstead Theatre) Cleaning Up and Taken (For Clean Break at Oval House Theatre), IDP (Tricycle Theatre),  The Stowaway (Play for young people, Plymouth Theatre), Beg Borrow or Steal (Kuumba Community Arts Centre), Water (Tricycle Theatre), Mules (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and Clean Break Theatre), Can you Keep a Secret? (Connections at Royal National Theatre), A Rock in Water and A Heroes Welcome (Royal Court Theatre), The Wind of Change (Half Moon Theatre) Picture Palace (Womens Theatre Group).

Radio plays include: Madame Tempey, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (Adapted from autobiography by Maya Angelou) Clean Trade , Her Father’s Daughter, Let Them Call it Jazz (adapted from Jean Rhys’ short story), Indiana (adapted from novel by George Sand), The Dinner Party , Something Borrowed, and Water (Radio 4), and Lazarus (Radio 3).

She is the 2018 recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award for her play Rockets and Blue Lights, which will make its stage debut at The Manchester Royal Exchange in 2020.  Other awards include the George Devine Award; Pearson Plays on Stage Scheme best play of the year Award; and the Unity Trust Theatre Award.  She received a special commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

She was Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and writer in residence at Holloway Prison, Clean Break Theatre Company, Royal Court Theatre, Kuumba Arts Community Centre, Tricycle Theatre, and The Royal National Theatre Studio.  Her play Leave Taking received a major revival at The Bush Theatre in 2018.

She is currently commissioned by the Bush Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre in London and is developing a screenplay with Blueprint Pictures.  A revival of One Under  toured nationally and at the Arcola Theatre, London by Graeae Theatre Company in Autumn 2019.