She grew up in Wolverhampton and was a scholarship pupil at St Dominic's High School for Girls in Brewood, Staffordshire.
[9] In May 2016 Nicole Kidman and her production company Blossom Films announced that she had optioned the rights to "Cuddles" and that Wilde would be adapting the play for screen.
[10] Since February 2015, she has been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper's online theatre blog[11] and has written extensively on theatre and arts politics issues for both The Guardian and The Stage newspapers.
In November 2015 Atkinson-Lord and her co-director Rachel Briscoe announced that they were stepping down from Ovalhouse to concentrate on individual projects.
[12] In September 2017, Atkinson-Lord's first film, "Domesticity", written by Chisa Hutchinson, won the award for Best Micro Drama at London's Discover.film Festival.