Rebecca Prichard was born in 1971. She studied drama at Exeter University, graduating in 1993, working as a devisor/performer and a drama youth worker. Her first play Essex Girls was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1994, as part of the Royal Court Young Writers Festival. The script was later published in Coming on Strong: New Writing from the Royal Court Theatre (1995), which also contained work by Nick Grosso, Michael Wynne and Kevin Coyle. Fair Game, a free adaptation of Games in the Backyard by Israeli writer Edna Mazya, was commissioned by the Royal Court and first performed there in 1997. Yard Gal, which won the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, was first performed at the Royal Court in 1998, and was co-produced with Clean Break, a theatre company specialising in work with ex-offenders. She has also written plays for BBC Radio 4 and is under commission to the Royal Court Theatre, Out of Joint and the Bush Theatre, London.
