[2][3] She was the artistic director and CEO of Talawa Theatre Company from 2006 to 2012, and she has adapted novels for radio and television, including books by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Andrea Levy, Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou and others.
[2][3][6] After graduating, Cumper returned to Jamaica, where she began a career writing for the radio, including two major soap operas, Malvina's Revenge and Mortimer Simmonds.
[14] Cumper's 2017 play Chigger Foot Boys, which pays tribute to African and Caribbean soldiers who lost their lives in the First World War, was produced at Tara Arts to a positive reception.
Paul Vale in a four-star review for The Stage called it a "Richly textured play delivered with clarity and touchingly performed", commenting that "the perspective is wholly enlightening",[15] and Sonia Grant wrote in the Huffington Post: "In the dexterous hands of acclaimed playwright Patricia Cumper MBE, Chigger Foot Boys accomplished what a good theatrical production should by being bold, entertaining and enlightening.
[17][18][19] The drama series was entitled The Amazing Maya Angelou, and Pippa Bennett-Warner and Adjoa Andoh respectively played the author as a young adult and in later life.