MEET THE WRITERS AND THEIR PIECES

Meredith Clayton
Meredith Clayton is a writer from Liverpool, England. Meredith has previously been in theatre as an actor preforming in the panto Sleeping Beauty and A Play About A Dragon. This will be Meredith’s first play as a writer.

Name of piece: Captain Ace (An Asexual Journey… But With Superheroes)
Captain Ace is an autobiographical piece of theatre that just so happens to feature a superhero. Join Robin as they come to terms with their sexuality through the help of Captain Ace.

Alex Jagger Kryslur
Alex graduated LIPA in 2023 with a BA (Hons) in Acting and is represented by Hamilton Management. Alex enjoys acting, writing, and creating theatre of all sorts. Additionally, Alex plays bass in the country western/Americana inspired band “Hatless Pierrot” and is a big fan of cats. The animal. Not the musical.

Name of Piece: Putting the Fun in Funeral!
Putting the Fun in Funeral! is a dark comedy about mental health, and the bureaucratic walls that stand before people seeking help and the services they need.
Content warning: depression, mental illness, discussions of assisted suicide.

Martha Jamieson
Martha Jamieson is a Playwright, Theatre Maker and Creative Facilitator. Her writing projects underrepresented voices and tells untold stories. She writes beautifully human theatre that tells the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. Her work has been performed at The Leeds Playhouse, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sudley Walled Gardens and in schools. She is currently under the mentorship of The Writing Squad and will be commencing LAB Writers with 20 Stories High next month.

Name of Piece: SPINSTER
Self-proclaimed SPINSTER is going on a date, or is she? Set in a playful backdrop of karaoke, etymology and getting glammed, this play explores the ‘cost’ of being single for SPINSTER in more ways than one.

Holly Lawless
Holly Lawless is a writer from and based in Liverpool. With a degree in Vocal Studies and Performance she has a love for the theatre as both a performer and a writer.

Name of Piece: Glue
Glue is about two friends reconnecting and reminiscing. It’s about the pain of growing and the fear of connection. It’s about the cost of leaving and the cost of being left behind. And it’s about what holds us together.

Luke Male
Luke Male graduated from Liverpool Media Academy working alongside Exhibition short film, Oddity. After graduating, Luke has taken part in cowriting and acting in the 2024 Fringe Festival production, Hoarderz. Luke is currently writing plays for future projects.

Name of Piece: Muzzle
When a small town is plagued by violent attacks by a feral animal,
local resident, SEFF, decides to hunt down and kill the animal, an Irish wolfhound.
But the plague continues. And the dog still pants.

Aquil Rodrigues
Aquil (you’re pronouncing it wrong— no, try again… okay, that’ll do) Rodrigues is a writer who grew up amongst the lush sands and tropical airs of Birmingham. She graduated from the womb in 2003 and has been seeking a way to crawl back in ever since.

Name of piece: Hatch
Hatch is a dramatic piece spawned out of the question: what does it take to desire to destroy the very thing one took pains to create?

Dana Symons
Dana is an up-and-coming writer, and lifelong lover of theatre, celebrating everything delightfully camp and fundamentally queer. Having graduated from Staffordshire University, with a First in Film, Television and Radio, Dana has been telling stories for as long as she can remember, and is thrilled to be entering the world of theatre with her piece DragPocalypse! The only apocalypse with free sequins!

Name of piece: DragPocalypse!
At the end of the world as we know it, all that remains are cockroaches, and two nasty Drag Queens, who only have each other.