Love, Liverpool: an A-Z of Hope // Commissioned artists
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Mandy Redvers-Rowe // Letter 1
Mandy Redvers-Rowe is a Liverpool based Disabled writer. In March her drama Second Sight for Jimmy McGovern’s Moving On Series 11 was broadcast on BBC1. In 2019 she developed Measuring Up in partnership with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres New Works department. She also recently co-wrote Blind School for BBC Radio 4.
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Amina Atiq // Letter 2
Amina Atiq is a Yemeni–Scouse writer, performance artist and activist. Atiq’s work explores the conflict and beauty of her dual identity, taking us on a journey to her heartland, Yemen, and her homeland, Liverpool. She is currently producing and writing her first one-woman show, exploring a 1970s Yemeni-British household to untangle what it means to belong.
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Luke Barnes // Letter 3
Luke Barnes is a Liverpool playwright and screenwriter; full length work includes: Freedom (Young Vic and Leeds Playhouse), Sad Club (National Theatre), All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre with Middle Child), No One Will Tell Me When To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre), Chapel Street (Bush Theatre), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide), The Jumper Factory (Young Vic), Lost Boys (National Youth Theatre), Cinderella (James Seabright & Not Too Tame), Katie Johnstone (The Orange Tree), The Saints (Nuffield Theatres, Southampton), Eistedfodd (HighTide), There Should Be Unicorns (Middle Child), LOVE (20 Stories High), Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child), Weekend Rockstars (Hull Truck with Middle Child), The Class (The Unicorn with NYT), and Loki and Betty (Almeida Theatre)
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Chloë Moss // Letter 4
Chloë Moss is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter. Her celebrated play This Wide Night (Clean Break, Soho theatre) won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize and was subsequently produced off Broadway. Chloë has written numerous other shows including Run Sister Run (Paines Plough, Soho theatre, Sheffield Crucible) The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Way Home (Everyman theatre, Liverpool) Christmas is Miles Away (Bush theatre and off Broadway)
Site-specific work includes I Do (for Dante or Die theatre company/ Almeida Theatre festival then touring), Handle With Care (Touring production with Dante or Die) and Sweatbox (Clean Break theatre for Latitude Festival & UK tour)
She is currently under commission to the Royal Court and Headlong Theatre.
Chloë has also written extensively for television. Credits include Six Wives (BBC One) Dickensian (BBC One), New Tricks (BBC One) and Prisoner's Wives (BBC One). She has also written Care, a single drama for Warp Films and Sky Arts, and an original series Switch, co-written with Tim Price (ITV2).
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Aron Julius // Letter 5
Aron Julius is a professional actor from Toxteth, Liverpool. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2019 on the BA (Hons) Acting course. His stage work includes Choir Boy (Royal Court London), A Raisin in the Sun (Sheffield Crucible) and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Vanbrugh Theatre/RADA).
His screen work includes Moving On (BBC1), were he played a young man struggling to cope on a zero-hours contract and DCI Banks (ITV) where he portrayed a young autistic boy burdened by a dark secret. He will also appear in Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile (20th Century Studios) in its cinematic release in October.
Aron has recently started writing and hopes to bring stories of the Liverpool & Black Northern experience to stage & screen.
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Roy // Letter 6
The star of Merseyside’s spoken word community without any shadow of a doubt, Roy’s sold-out performances the length and breadth of Britain have acquired legendary status. Featured on 6 Music on many occasions, Roy’s brilliant tales of Liverpool life and his incredible observations of the minutiae of urban living are a joy to behold. His tales are both moving and funny. An incredibly charismatic performer - we welcome Roy to the A-Z of Liverpool Hope.
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Inclueless Theatre // Letter 7
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