Becky Simpson (born 10 August 1986) is a Manchester-born actress, writer and musician who now lives in the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire.
Her mother, Diane Whitley, had spent several years as an actress and was encouraged to go into writing through her playwright husband Dave Simpson.
The play was written by Lee Hall (who went on to write Billy Elliot) and was about a young Jewish autistic girl dying of cancer.
She also played Puck in a radio adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring alongside Richard Griffiths.
In other roles she appeared with future Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston in Pig Paradise and Ricky Tomlinson in The Virgin of Liverpool.