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!
"A production steeped in personal heritage, Evangeline Henderson shines a light on an industry that was all too quickly forgotten." - Northern Arts review 4*, GRIMM 2025
Grimm (2023-2025)
​It’s the 17th July 1973 and we are in the Ship Discothoque - the first and only disco in Grimsby Town, we’ll have you know...!
It’s also settling day and the thick of the second Cod War. With this threat looming over them, a fat wage packet and only three days to spend it, the fishermen return home, where life and most importantly, the women they left behind, awaits them. Told firmly through the eyes of these women, GRIMM celebrates their resilience whilst also shining a light on a community and
history too often overlooked.
The Record ShoP (Ongoing)
A key jangles in the door. A slam. Footsteps. This time, April stands alone. Large and mighty she fills the space as she speaks in harmony with John. His voice flows through her and seeps out of the walls.
Direct parallels are drawn as we discover April is embodying the memory of John taking on the shop, all those years ago, as she must do now. There is an echo to her words, his words. It comes from a mysterious record spinning in the corner of the room. April didn't put it there, she's never seen it before and she doesn’t know what it means but it has her transfixed.
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Lights up and were inside Revolutionary Records. A dusty old independent record store infused with that dusty old record store smell; history. You know, the sort of place that doesn’t look as if it’s had a lick of paint since the 1980’s…
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First developed with support from Sheffield Theatre's Rolling Residency, I'm now looking for support to tour the show.
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.
