BRYONY LAVERY

(1947 - )
Nationality: British

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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by St John Donald. US representation by Val Day of ICM Partners

Bryony Lavery's plays include Helen And Her Friends (1978); Bag (1979); Family Album (1980); Missing (1981); Calamity (1983); Origin Of The Species (1984); Witchcraze (1985); Her Aching Heart (Pink Paper Play Of The Year 1992); Wicked (1990); Kitchen Matters (1990); Flight (1991); Nothing Compares To You (1995); Ophelia (1996) and A Wedding Story (2000). Her play Frozen, commissioned by Birmingham Rep, won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award, was produced on Broadway where it was nominated for 4 Tony awards. Her extensive work for BBC Radio includes No Joan Of Arc (Sony nominated); Velma And Therese, The Smell Of Him, Requiem and adaptations of Wuthering Heights, Lady Audley's Secret, A High Wind In Jamaica and The Lovers of Viorne for the Classic Serial, and Angela Carter's Wise Children. Bryony is an honorary Doctor Of Arts at De Montford University. She was a director with John Retallack, of Performing Arts Labs Playwrighting, and has been a tutor on Birmingham University's MA Playwrighting course. Bryony was an Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop and of her own company Les Oeufs Malades, and for two years she was Writer-in-Residence for The Unicorn Theatre for Children. Other productions include Smoke at The New Vic Theatre, Stoke-On-Trent, Yikes at The Unicorn Theatre, Deadpoint, an aerial piece for Matilda Leyser at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House and her adaptation of Mary Webb's Precious Bane for Pentabus Theatre Company, which she toured four stately homes with a cast of eight actors, an 80-strong choir. . .and a live horse. . . Her play, Last Easter, premiered at The Lucille Lortel Theater in NYC, and enjoyed its UK run in a production directed by Douglas Hodge at Birmingham Rep Theatre. Her play Stockholm, which she wrote for Frantic Assembly, toured the UK before a run at Hampstead Theatre, London in May 2008. Bryony won the Wolff Whiting award for the play in 2008, which premiered in Spring 2010, in a touring production by the Sydney Theatre Company.

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24 Hour Play!, The Bag Balls Beautiful Burnout Behind the Scenes At the Museum Believers, The Black Hole Of Calcutta, The Bloody Chamber, The Brideshead Revisited Bufonidae Calamity Catering Service, The Cesario Cherished Disappointments In Love Christmas Carol, A Cursed Days At Court Deadpoint Dirt Discontented Winter Doll's House, A Down Among the Mini-Beasts Dracula Dragon Wakes, The Drury Lane Ghost, The Family Album, The Female Trouble Flight Floorshow For Maggie, Betty And Ida Frozen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Germany Calling Getting Through Goliath Gotterdumerung; Or, Twilight Of the Gods Grandmother's Steps Headless Body, The Heartbroken Mary Loses Struggle With Serpent Of Time Helen And Her Friends Her Aching Heart Hot Time House Of Desires Hundred and One Dalmatians, The I Was Too Young At the Time To Understand Why My Mother Was Crying Illyria It Snows Jiggery Pokery: A Homage To Charles Hawtrey Joker, The Kitchen Matters Kursk Last Easter Madagascar Magic Toyshop, The Method, The Missing More Female Trouble More Light Mummy Night Before the Morning After Show, The Nothing Compares To You Numerical Man Of All Living Ophelia Origin Of the Secies Over And Out Pamela Stephenson One Woman Show Peter Pan Precious Bane Primadoona Puppet States Queen Coal Red Sky Sharing She Stoops To Conquer Shot Through the Heart Sleeping Beauty, The Smoke Snakes Snow Queen, The Sore Points Stockholm Sugar And Spice Thyestes (Furies) Time Gentlemen Please Treasure Island Two Marias Uncle Vanya Unemployment: An Occupational Hazard Uniform And Uniformed Wandsworth Warmers Christmas Carol Concert, The Wandsworth Warmers In Unbridled Passions, The Wandsworth Warmers, The Warbeck Way To Cook A Wolf the Wedding Story, A Wicked Wicked Lady, The Wild Bunch, The Witchcraze Yikes! YoYo-My Life is Like a Yoyo Zulu Hut Club, The Zulu or Shaka's Revenge

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