Alecky Blythe

Alecky is a playwright and actor.

In 2003, Alecky set up Recorded Delivery (Verbatim Theatre  Company). The term ‘recorded delivery’ has now become synonymous with the verbatim technique she employs.

Her first play Come Out Eli at the Arcola won the Time Out Award for the Best Production on the Fringe and transferred to the BAC for the Critics Choice Season. She went on to write Strawberry Fields for Pentabus and Cruising for the Bush.

In 2007 she was selected as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow following A Man In a Box for Channel 4.

In July 2009, Alecky’s play The Girlfriend Experience transferred from the Royal Court to the Young Vic. In 2010 she teamed up with the National Theatre Studio and Rustaveli Theatre Tbilisi to make Do We Look Like Refugees?!, originally produced in Georgia before going to the Assembly Rooms and winning a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2010.

London Road, which she co-authored with composer Adam Cork, won Best Musical at the Critics’ Circle Awards and was revived in 2012 at the National Theatre in the Olivier after its sellout in the Cottesloe in 2011.

Alecky was also involved in Headlong Theatre’s production of Decade. More recently Where Have Been All My Life? was produced at the New Vic Theatre in April 2012 and she co-wrote Friday Night Sex for the Royal Court’s Open Court Season with Michael Wynne.

She wrote and co-directed The Riots; In their Words, a drama documentary for BBC2 and has most recently adapted London Road into a feature film with Cuba Pictures, BBC Films and BFI.

Her show Little Revolution ran at the Almeida in autumn 2014.

Alecky’s most recent play for the National, OUR GENERATION, is an astonishing verbatim production that tells the stories of a generation. Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, it is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.

Information on the TRUTH TELLERS project: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/truthtellersplay