Lauryn Redding

Lauryn is an writer, composer and actor.  In 2022 she was one of eight people selected for the BBC Studios Writers' Academy and was awarded a prestigious Peggy Ramsay/Film 4 Playwrights' Scheme bursary for a year-long attachment at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2023. 

Her debut play Bloody Elle, which she also composed and performed, re-opened the Royal Exchange Theatre in June 2021 before transferring to the Traverse Theatre in 2022, where it won the Holden Street Theatres Edinburgh Fringe Award.  She was nominated for Best Composer, Lyricist or Book Writer for Bloody Elle in the 2022 Stage Debut Awards.

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Lauryn Redding weaves the musician’s swagger with the storyteller’s confiding tone to depict a thrilling summer of love
The Guardian on Bloody Elle (Royal Exchange)

★ ★ ★ ★
Redding creates a gratifying, superbly accomplished display of invention and craft. 
WhatsOnStage on Bloody Elle (Royal Exchange)

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Redding's gorgeously rendered acoustic guitar songs are mundane and transcendent at once, showing how love can spring up from the stony ground of secrecy, turning the brick alley behind the chippy into paradise.
Financial Times on Bloody Elle (Traverse Theatre)