
Beth Westbrook
Beth is a neurodivergent writer, facilitator, and performer with chronic pain from The Wirral. She’s passionate about improving the representation of Neurodivergence and Disability, and was featured in The Stage with the Neurodivergent Creatives Network, an online support network she co-founded.
Beth’s play ‘Sunny Girl’ is funded by Arts Council and is being developed with HER Productions. In 2024 ‘Sunny Girl’ had a short run at New Adelphi Theatre as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe, and received great acclaim and 5 star reviews. Her second play ‘Awareness’ was part of Unity Theatre’s Open Call Program, and was part of Traverse Theatre’s Breakthrough Writers program in association with Lung Ha Theatre Company.
Her training includes The Writing Squad, the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting, the Young Everyman Playhouse Writers, Royal Court Liverpool Stage Write, Writing on the Wall, Theatre 503’s Advanced Playwriting, BBC Writers’ Write Across Liverpool, Box of Trick’s Pen Pals programme, The Space’s Script Space, DANC’s HETV Training with Ralph and Katie, Wild Child’s Write Wild, New Writing North’s Script Hub, and the Everyman Playhouse Playwright’s Program
With Wild Child and Tiger Aspect, she also had the opportunity to shadow the Bad Education writers room, and is keen to get more writers room experience.
Her facilitation work includes projects with Proud and Loud Arts, the Liverpool Empire and Arts Emergency, CRIPtic Arts, and The Writing Squad, as well as being part of RAWD’s facilitator trainee program.
She is currently working with Dark Horse Theatre on their R&D ‘We’re in love (actually)”, and is part of the Graeae Beyond program attached to The Liverpool Everyman Playhouse. She is currently on the Writing Squad Board for 2024.
She has been longlisted for a Funny Women Writing Award 2019, was a finalist for Hope Mill’s Through the Mill Prize in 2021, was shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, was in the top 35 scripts for the Bruntwood Prize 2022, and won a Cheshire Prize for Literature in 2022.
She is represented by Maddie O’Dwyer at Berlin Associates.
https://www.berlinassociates.com/clients/12374/
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