Biography

Alecky Blythe

Gender
Female
Nationality
British
Show Categories
Musical
Genres
Drama, Historical/Biographical

Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her pioneering work in verbatim theatre. In 2003, she set up her theatre company, Recorded Delivery, to continue her work in this field. Her plays include Come Out Eli (winner of a Time Out Award), The Girlfriend Experience, and Do We Look Like Refugees? (winner of a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010). Blythe is best known for her musical, London Road, which opened at the National Theatre in 2011 and has subsequently been adapted for film.

Known For

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Musical

London Road is set in Ipswich, Suffolk, in and around London Road during the serial murders of local...