Alecky blythe biography of george michael

British playwright and screenwriter

Alecky Blythe, born ,^[1] is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has written several plays, including the acclaimed musical London Road.^[2]

Her first play Come Out Eli won a Time Out Award. The Girlfriend Experience premiered at the Royal Court and then transferred to the Young Vic in While researching the play she spent 18 months in a "quintessentially English" brothel in Bournemouth.^[3]Do We Look Like Refugees? won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. London Road, dealing with the murders of five sex workers in Ipswich in ^[4], opened at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in to widespread acclaim. It was named Best Musical at the Critics' Circle Awards and transferred to the National's larger Olivier stage in Her subsequent play, Have I Been All My Life?, about a talent contest in Stoke,^[5] opened at the New Vic Theatre in April

In other work, Blythe took part in Headlong Theatre's production of Decade at St Katherine's Docks. She wrote and co-directed a BBC2 documentary on the London riots. She is also working on a film script.

Blythe is best known for her pioneering work in verbatim theatre. Her theatre company Recorded Delivery was set up in to advance this branch of theatre.

In , Blythe's Little Revolution was produced at the Almeida Theatre. Blythe acted as a version of herself, and the cast included Ronni Ancona and Imogen Stubbs.

In June , the National Theatre announced that it would stage a co-production of Our Generation with Chichester Festival Theatre early in , a work based on interviews about the lives of 12 young British people, directed by the latter's artistic director Daniel Evans. The interviews took place over a period of 5 years and the 12 young people from across the UK including Belfast, Birmingham, East of England, Glasgow, London and North Wales.

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