Joe Ward Munrow is a playwright from Deptford, south-east London, who now lives in Liverpool. His plays include: The Legend of Ned Ludd (Liverpool Everyman, 2024); Screaming Heart, winner of the Mercury Weinberger Playwriting Prize; Blue (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Gate Theatre, London); Held (Liverpool Playhouse Studio, 2012; shortlisted for Royal National Theatre Playwright's Award); The Laundry (Brockley Jack, 2011; winner of the Brockley Jack's Write Now Award and the Commended Prize in BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2011).

His radio plays include The Busker (BBC Radio 4, 2016; selected for BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week).