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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.

Bryony’s latest play for Frantic Assembly, Beautiful Burnout, toured the UK in late 2010 before a run at St Ann’s Warehouse in New York in Spring 2011.