Writer
Within all of my writing, I'm driven by a desire to tell untold & female led stories. In particular, I work with communities to uncover their tale, seeking to find the most accessible & interesting way to share it with the wider world. I also have experience writing for site sensitive, softly immersive & unusual spaces.
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I've written & produced my own site sensitive show 'Grimm' alongside commissions for other companies including Grimsby's 'Festival of the Seas' & Sugarpunches' female led showcase 'Stories from the Nest'. As a Sheffield Theatre supported artist I'm a member of their 2024 New Dramaturgs Group & also a recent recipient of their Rolling Residency grant (March 2025). This grant has enabled me to write the first draft of my next piece of work set in a Record Shop!
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If you'd like my help to bring a story to life please get in touch!
"I'm a great believer in untold
stories that make a difference"
-brian Lavery on Grimm 2023
Grimm (2023-2024)
1961, Landing Day. The end of the first Cod War. With the threat of war looming over them, a fat wage packet and only three days to spend it, the men return to The Ship Disco, where life on the home front awaits them. It will be 7 years between the triple trawler tragedy, 11 years before the second Cod War and 15 years before the fishing industry collapses in on itself all together...
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Based upon stories passed down from my retired fishermen Grandad, Grimm is a honest portrayal of a forgotten Grimsby fishing community. Supported by Arts Council England, Grimsby Creates, Middlechild & The Fishermen's Mission the show toured across iconic pub venues in Grimsby & Hull.
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The PorT (2023)
Commissioned by Swan Events for Grimsby's, The Festival of the Seas & in collaboration with The Turntable Gallery, The Port was a 20 minute immersive experience set within an old cold store on the Grimsby Docks. The performance was free to access and looped throughout the day.
The Museum of the Great Grimsby Dock Company invites you to their performance, ‘The Life & Times of the Workers who made our Port’ or do they....?! Lumpers going missing, unexplained ‘accidents’, we told you it was dangerous... didn’t we?
Bringing a multi layer performance to the dark chambers of the lower gallery, the event aimed to capture a sense of the perils associated with many aspects of dock work. These dangerous environments once teemed with the press of bodies and hard labour. Each one had their own stories of pain and loss, but their efforts fed a nation. These performances reveal the sinister side to that industry.
Stories from the
nest(2022)
Stories from the Nest was a female led ACE funded enrichment showcase produced by Manchester based theatre company, 'Sugarpunch'. Premiering at Pot Kettle Black, the evening was complied of short monologues centring on the female experience. For the evening, I wrote monologue 'Toro Loco'; a stark look at the boundaries of consent.
