Sarah Phelps is a British television, radio, film and freelance playwright who was working for the Royal Shakespeare Company when she took part in a BBC initiative to find new writers. She then wrote for the World Service Soap opera Westway before joining the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders in 2002.Phelps has written over 50 episodes of EastEnders, including both the Return of Den Watts and his final demise, less than two years later, when he was killed by his wife, Chrissie.