Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a British dramatist, known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play
Frozen. In addition to her work in theatre, she has also written for television and radio.
Bryony Lavery's plays include
Her Aching Heart (Pink Paper Play of the Year 1992) and
A Wedding Story (2000). Her play
Frozen, commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award, and was then produced on Broadway where it was nominated for 4 Tony awards. She also wrote
Last Easter, produced in The Door, and created adaptations of
Uncle Vanya and
A Christmas Carolas an associate artist for The REP.
Stockholm, with Frantic Assembly, won the Wolff-Whiting award for Best Play of 2008. Recent work includes
Beautiful Burnout for the National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, which received a Fringe First at Edinburgh;
The Believers with Frantic Assembly at the Theatre Royal Plymouth and the Tricycle;
Kurskwith Sound and Fury at the Young Vic and Sydney Opera House;
Cesario for the National Theatre;
Thursday at the Adelaide Festival;
Queen Coal at the Studio, Sheffield; and an adaptation of
Tales of the City/ More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin for BBC Radio 4. Forthcoming work includes stage adaptations of
101 Dalmatians for Chichester Festival Theatre;
Brideshead Revisited for York Theatre Royal; and
Picnic at Hanging Rock for ETT/Brink. Bryony Lavery is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.