Theresa Gooda
Writer
Theresa Gooda writes poetry, plays and short stories and is the ghost writer of a series of Sunday Times top ten bestselling memoirs.
Her next play, Mannequim, co-written with Lexy Medwell, has recently premiered at BilliLit, and transfers to the Brighton Fringe in May 2025.
Mannequim is the tale of Micki and Lexy, two school friends who try to understand the confusing pressure of gender conformity as children and struggle to navigate gender identity into adulthood.
A story of friendship, communication, failure, love, loss, pain and self-discovery.
Mannequim explores the ways in which society attempts to define the way we are perceived by controlling and framing our bodies at different stages of our lives.
Is it a play? Is it a poem? No! It’s a one-act ploem: a unique mix of dialogue, contemporary poetry and contraverse from Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell.
Ghost-writing for Louise Allen, the first book in the explosive new Slave Girls series was published in April 2025.
Step forward in solidarity
Ted Gooda performed as part of the Shelley Memorial Project International Women’s Day 2025 event at Waterstones Horsham. Celebrating the strength, resilience, and achievements of women via the medium of poetry, Ted Gooda performed alongside fellow poets Liz Barnes, Kate Collier and Nicola Garrard to raise £500 for the SMP.
Writing as Ted Gooda, Theresa’s debut poetry pamphlet Silence & Selvedge was published in September 2024
Thrown Away Children
Theresa has ghostwritten ten books in the Sunday Times bestselling Thrown Away Children series, writing as Theresa McEvoy with Louise Allen, with an eleventh planned for publication in 2025