Hannah Lavery is a playwright, poet, performer and director. Hannah is one of Imaginate's Accelerator Artists and an Associate Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland as well as Writer in Residence at Lyceum Youth Theatre. Her play for children commissioned by Imaginate was shared as a work in progress at Edinburgh International Children's Festival in May 2021. She won the 2021 Adopt a Playwright Award (Off West End Plays and Playwrights); her adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde was produced at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and her highly acclaimed play Lament For Sheku Bayoh was revived at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, both in August 2021. In 2020, she was awarded a New Playwrights' Award by the Playwrights Studio Scotland and selected by Owen Sheers as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future for the International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing Centre and the British Council. She was also selected as one of the Scottish Voices for the BBC Writers' Room. The Drift, her autobiographical lyric play, toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Season 2019.
