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Alecky blythe biography sample


Alecky is a playwright and screenwriter who won a Time Out Award for her first play, Come Out Eli. In 2003, Alecky set up Recorded Delivery.

  • “I'm always very, very nervous,” Blythe admits.
  • Alecky Blythe founded verbatim-theatre company Recorded Delivery in 2003.
  • The occasion was the first night of I Only Came Here for Six Months, a new play by Alecky Blythe.
  • Verbatim theatre uses real people's words to explore events and themes through their perspectives.
  • Alecky Blythe founded verbatim-theatre company Recorded Delivery in 2003..

    Alecky Blythe
    Writer/ Actor

    In 2003 Alecky Blythe founded Recorded Delivery and created her debut show Come Out Eli. She had been inspired to make it having learnt the verbatim technique from Mark Wing Davey in his innovative workshop Drama Without Paper.

    The show premiered at the Arcola winning the Time Out Award for Best Production on the Fringe and later transferred to the BAC for the Critics Choice Season. After its success, she has continued to explore the verbatim method in various mediums.

    The term 'recorded delivery' has now become synonymous with the verbatim technique she employs.

    Alecky Blythe's engrossing verbatim play tells the stories of a generation.

    In 2006 Cruising was a sell out at The Bush in 2006. The following year she wrote A Man In A Box for Channel 4. In Brussels, she created I Only Came Here for 6 Months that played at two of Brussels's leading theatres, K.V.S and Les Halles.

    In July 2009, The Girlfriend Experience transferred from the Royal Court to the Young Vic, and Do We Look Like Refugees?, won a Fringe First Award at the E