Ellen Brammar

Ellen is a Hull-based writer.  She was one of the BBC Writersroom’s Northern Voices in 2020, delivering a TV pilot of I Hate Alone, and was selected for the BBC Children’s New Voices Festival. Her latest play, Modest, had a very successful run at the Kiln Theatre, London in Summer 2023 and received brilliant reviews.

★ ★ ★ ★
this rollicking piece of gig theatre, written by Ellen Brammar … shines in its humour … the show bubbles over with charisma
The Guardian on Modest (Kiln Theatre)

★ ★ ★ ★
The show’s real success is in portraying the lives of those [Elizabeth Thompson] inspired but for whom existing is hard – the Bessies and Franceses. They are the real stars. And in today’s world, the ones still struggling.
WhatsOn Stage on Modest

★ ★ ★ ★
Brammar’s exceptional piece … uses a potent mix of drag, searing comedy, indignant fury and tenderness to explore the real-life artist’s history and highlight its contradictions.
The Stage on Modest 

What writer Ellen Brammar has dared to do, is uncover two women stripped back to the bone, from all patriarchal decoration and what’s underneath is a vexation towards this iniquity … a brilliantly penned tragicomedy that we identify with on many levels
Browse Magazine on I Hate Alone (Middle Child)